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He added that the Tories didn't "spend our time talking about or worrying about the social democrats," instead focusing on "being Conservatives".

Sir Keir argued "it is now time for social democrats to confront directly some of the challenges and some of the lies that have taken root in our societies".

Robert Kagan, a former Republican aide now at the Brookings Institution, added one more guiding principle: “He favors autocrats over democrats.”

But an increasing number of Reeves's fellow MPs across Labour's political spectrum - from social democrat to hard left - are now begging to differ.

Gibbon, no democrat, spent much of his time reading voraciously and carried some English biases and feuds into his writing, but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary.