Is the fedora preparing to fly?

Deciding when to throw your hat into the ring of any significant election contest is always about timing. Throw your hat in too early and you lose the momentum, join the race to late and you just don't get going.

It's interesting therefore that a certain Home Secretary should be giving a lecture to the Young Fabians two weeks before the polls at which Labour expect to be trounced on an undetermined subject. The contents of the lecture will be interesting, will it be on his ministerial brief or instead about surreptitious flying fedoras? Time will only tell!