But then taxing and spending are part of that moral case too. No one said to the young, their heads turned by the prospect of their successors being relieved of tuition fees, that they should question how that money would be found. No one said that instead of bearing student debt they would have to bear greater national debt in the decades ahead. No one explained the opportunity cost of this so-called free-ride.

That cost was probably higher taxes, disincentivising the workforce and, if levied corporately, driving some businesses into jurisdictions such as Ireland, or Singapore. No one said this would impede wealth creation, on which the funding of public services relies. No one raised the possibility that those requiring society’s compassion – the infirm and impoverished elderly, deprived children, the chronically ill and severely disabled – might suffer a diminution in state assistance so the most privileged section of our youth could have a free ride.

Such young people are neither stupid nor callous: but like all with less experience of life they require to be informed. Labour was very good at informing them; the Tories made no attempt to offer their own version of economic reality.

Ignored by the Tory campaign, many young people did not have to be committed Leftists to support Mr Corbyn, whose illiberal, economically catastrophic Marxist ideas would have caused the stock market and the currency to collapse, wealth creators to flee, debt to become unsustainable and public services to implode.