This is insecurity Britain. Labour and the Tories are racing to connect with it | Phillip Blond

People are crying out for economic justice and cultural security. Whoever grasps this will control the immediate political future

Political parties are governed by ideology. That ideology works when it offers the best explanation of reality to the party's activists, members and voters. But when reality shifts - when the experience of people is no longer legitimated or explained by the politics they are offered - then that party and that ideology are in mortal danger.

At the close of this autumn's party conference season, it is clear we are in the middle of a significant reframing of our political reality. The shift is probably equal to, if not greater than, the 1945 moment that founded welfare states across Europe or the Thatcher revolution in 1979, which began the dismantling of them in the name of free-market economics.