As the virtues of integrity and competence are dusted off, the Labour leader can lay claim to the former and hope that, on the latter, he can persuade voters that he could fare no worse than the Tories and may do much better. Leaders do not, however, live or die on such modest aspirations, but on synchronicity with the spirit of their ages. Just as Thatcher and Blair were creatures of their eras, a Britain caught in the unfairness and injustice that economic chaos decrees will also need a different sort of leader. Suddenly, the tides of change are running Labour’s way,