The right is usually much better than the left at harnessing the awesome power of the folk memories that surround Britain’s heroic second world war struggle.
The idea of British exceptionalism at its most evocative moment between 1939 and 1945 was crucial to Brexit and crucial to securing popular backing for the Falklands War a generation earlier too.
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