SO far this General Election campaign has been dominated by one story. The utter disintegration of the Conservative Party . Not only has one poll already shown Nigel Farage’ s Reform UK actually overtake the Conservatives , but Penny Mordaunt had TV audiences laugh in her face yesterday as she tried to defend her party’s record in office .

But fun or tragic as all of this is, it risks us all missing the bigger point. Which is the whacking Labour majority that looks likely to be returned to the Commons next month. There isn’t any great enthusiasm for the Labour Party .

How could there be, with a frontbench led by the bland Sir Keir Starmer, the hopeless David Lammy and the insufferably superior Emily Thornberry ? But still they keep a lead of 20 points or more in the polls. And so they look like they will drift into government with a super-majority anyway. Like me, you might be wondering what Labour will do once they are in power.

And like me you might be none the wiser after the party’s manifesto launch this week. If there is one thing Starmer is desperate not to do it is to say or promise anything that might scare off the low-energy voter. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was right to warn this week about a Labour super-majority being “ bad news for people in this country ” because it would prove to be “power unchecked”.

Although this message would be easier to take if Shapps hadn’t had a different ministerial appointment every few weeks in recent years. So w.