I'm a bit puzzled at the relevance Teribus thinks the fact that the population has risen in the last 70 years has to my hope that a new Labour government will act in the spirit of the 1945 governmment.

Clearly the changes which have come about in the intervening years mean that different problems are here and different solutions will be needed and will be possible. But what is needed is the wisdom to recognise those problems, and the determination to act to solve them. That's what I mean by "the spirit of 1945".

And in many ways we are in a much better position to do that than they were, in the wake of a terrible war. We are far wealthier as a society, have a far healthier population, and have technology which makes it incomparably easier to organise major projects, compared to 70 years ago.