What do you want from an opposition?

We asked politicians, cultural figures and activists the burning question for our special issue. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> In this week's New Statesman, we asked writers, artists, party grandees and other public figures a simple question. What do you want from an opposition? The shorter responses are collected here. For the full collection, buy the magazine . John Witherow Nature abhors a vacuum, and Labour has become a giant vacuum machine, sucking the air out of opposition politics and leaving the government to roam the centre ground at will. One obvious consequence is that the Conservatives are not being...