Where might the real centre ground of British politics lie? “We love our NHS, hang the paedos” — that was a tongue-in-cheek formula sketched out in 2018 by Jeremy Driver, a tweeter who might just be the most influential political philosopher you’ve never heard of. His viral tweet came at the height of the excitement about a new centrist party, but little did Driver know that Boris Johnson would soon seize his mantra as the ideological path to power.
After the gradual political realignment in the wake of the 2016 referendum, the centre of opinion is often described in the gentler terms of left on the economy, right on social issues. Nigel Farage was the first to grasp this as he tore votes away from
