Should Labour throw caution to the win?

WHAT if the cost of living crisis eases and the British economy finally climbs off its death bed?

- KEVIN MAGUIRE

What if Labour fails to win July 20's Uxbridge and Selby by-elections and the Libs fail to grab Somerton? 

What if Rishi Sunak eventually scores a couple of his five own goals?

What if grabbing Chancellor Jeremy Hunt buys votes with tax bribes?

What it Tories inflame every knuckle-dragging nationalist reactionary bigot?

What if polls narrow so that Conservatives can portray themselves as resurrection kids?

What if Keir Starmer's caution fails to excite folk?

That's a lot of "What ifs?", granted, and Tories who couldn't run a bath would need them all to actually happen to be in with a shout.

Yet a certain dread lurks within increasingly optimistic Labour Shadow Cabinet Ministers.