Her success in doing so suggests, it seems to me, that that seam was always more important than historians and politician scientists have given it credit for being; that one reason why post-war Whiggery went adrift a little more than half-way through the period, and why it has little to tell us about the route to 1979, is that it paid too much attention to the solidarities of class and not enough to the solidarities of nation.