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Sir Anthony Seldon is our next guest on Politics Hub With Ali Fortescue.

He has penned a new book entitled ‘2010-2024: 14 wasted years?’, and we ask for his reflections on the Tory years in power.

He says there were some good things, such as in education where standards rose, “aspects of pensions, aspects of science, aspects of the arts, Universal Credit”.

But he goes on: “Overall, growth and productivity has been stagnant since the global financial crisis of 2007-8, and if we look at health, if we look at transport, if we look at housing, if we look at the state of defence, if we look at Britain’s position in the world – we don’t see the different historians and academics who wrote the book… there isn’t the kind of significant change in the standard of all those various areas and other that we have tended to see in long periods of Tory government in the past.”

He says there have been “some progressive, important, and incremental changes, but overall a disappointing performance, frankly”.

“It’s hard to think of any period of single-party domination by the Conservative Party that has achieved less than the party’s achieved since 2010.”

Infighting has been partly to blame, and it is also a party that is “unsure what it believes in” and is “confused”, Sir Anthony says.

He also says “the flip flop” of policies and ideological direction has been a problem.

“There were so many opportunities that the Conservative government could have had for consistent and thoughtful policymaking, and it simply hasn’t happened.”

Despite the “stability” brought by Rishi Sunak and Lord Cameron, Labour is on track for “a very significant victory” on Thursday.

He notes that no party since 1832 have ever won five general elections in a row, and adds: “It is going to be a colossal Labour victory, akin to 1945.”