A year and a half into her beleaguered premiership, it is fittingly tone deaf for Theresa May to announce her party’s new mission as being “to fight and win the battle of ideas and to defeat socialism today as we have defeated it before.”

This sentence alone — let alone the rest of the speech — delivered as it was to an audience of billionaires at the Tory party’s £15,000 per-table Black and White Ball at the Natural History Museum, is an object lesson in “a lot going on there.”

It’s worth remembering that Theresa May, to an audience of Tory megadonors, many of whom have never worked, has declared war on the ideology and movement that made it illegal to employ children working at machines, that mandated basic safety protections, and through which were won basically everything about our society that doesn’t suck, from the National Health Service to the weekend.