New Labour fitted smack between these two Lib Dem tribes – more confident in the power of the state than the Liberals, more at ease with market reforms than the SDP.
The need for such a party, and the opportunity for Labour to fit that bill, are clear.
Alongside the current race there runs a stream of speculation that Labour might fit another one in before 2020.
My next job is to make sure that Labour is fit and ready to be able to run the health service for the future.
As Charted Institute of Housing chief executive Grainia Long has pointed out, it appears that policymakers don't understand how the housing market and the labour market fit together.
That's how we feel and that is why we are so indignant and resentful, that 'Labour' sees fit to close our pool.
Budget: Billy Heyman, MD of BTL Property Ltd, a south-west London building company, quotes £360 a square metre for PVC windows and at least £840 a square metre for a hardwood sash or casement window, plus £240 labour to fit each window.
According to Shepherd, MacDonald's chief priority was to show that Labour was "fit to govern", and he had thus acted with conservative caution.
The most enduring and significant exhibit, in practical terms, is Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt kitchen of 1926, captured in a grainy photograph, which pioneered the labour-saving fitted kitchen we now take for granted.
It fits Labour's cost-of-living narrative brilliantly.
