If he sees a set of policies that WORK, do you not think he'd be off with them like a ferret down a drain-pipe?
Surely it's for the "progressives" to come up with that.
Bugger the Left/Right distinction: it's obsolete. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
Look how Royal was called gaffe-prone when she actually did fewer gaffes than Sarkozy. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes