Trump was not a significant factor, and that matters

The Liberals should not let themselves be stampeded into some sort of “centrist” party on the basis they lost this election because they were “Temu Trumps”, “Trumpish”, “Trumplite” or any other such epithet.

The real reasons will emerge over time. Hasty actions now, or allowing false narratives to set in place, will make the task of getting the party back on track even harder.

They look like they are down and out for a count of at least two elections, but another lesson to be drawn from both Canada, the UK and even the US, is that we are in a time when politics are extraordinarily fluid.

It would be a bad idea for any party to be despondent, and perhaps fatal for any winner to be triumphalist.