Reuters
Labour has its own semi-public, semi-private conversation bubbling away too. Publicly it is still claiming, as Jon Ashworth did this morning, that the Conservatives could win the general election.
Privately, Labour circles are abuzz with conversations about preparations for government.
This has been the fiefdom of Sue Gray, the chief-of-staff who Sir Keir controversially poached last year from a lifetime in the civil service. After 14 years in opposition, few senior members of the Labour Party, be they MPs or officials, have any experience of being in government – a key reason why Sir Keir hired Ms Gray.
Interestingly, should Labour win Ms Gray appears likely to be joined in Downing Street by Morgan McSweeney, who has run the party’s election campaign.
In that event, expect a potential Labour government to quickly claim that what they have uncovered on the government books is worse than they had expected – an argument the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has pre-emptively questioned.
Labour strategists believe that David Cameron went a long way to securing the Conservatives’ 2015 election victory in the days after he became prime minister in 2010 – when he used the trappings of office to mount a concerted assault on Labour’s record. Expect the same again.
Of course, Labour may not get there. Only postal votes have so far been cast.
But make no mistake – from the way the two main parties are campaigning in these final days, they both believe this is the most plausible scenario.