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"You can't win a general election or be the largest party as a one-man band. Farage will have to find a way of sharing the limelight."

When former Liverpool defender Alan Hansen declared at the start of the 1995-96 Premier League season "You can't win anything with kids", Alex Ferguson's young Manchester United stars went on to prove him wrong.

"What that means is that in every constituency there would be an effective electoral threshold of 13, 14 or maybe 15%, so if you can't win that share of the vote or higher, you are not going to win any seats and that really squeezes these smaller parties," he said.

"You can't win an election if you're not trusted to run the economy. And Labour has a historical problem that goes back a very, very long way," she tells me.

You can't win the title on moving day, they say, but you can certainly lose it.