What Labour strategically requires now is something close to the opposite. Lucy Powell’s election as Labour’s new deputy leader – on a low turnout that testified to deep internal disenchantment – was a bottom-up rebuke to that effect. Ms Powell was the only cabinet minister sacked in the reshuffle prompted by the resignation of her predecessor, Angela Rayner. That has liberated her to articulate the view that a “course correction” is required: one that dials down the “command and control” style behaviour at the top, and starts to treat traditional Labour instincts and convictions on issues such as inequality and poverty as electoral assets rather than liabilities.