I spent last week in Copenhagen, campaigning alongside Danish conservatives in a knife-edge general election. Something did the trick: a last minute surge gave the Right a larger majority than anyone had predicted.

As well as a swing to the Right, there was a big swing within the Right. Four free-market parties had contested the election in a loose alliance, known as the Blue Bloc. The two establishment parties in the Blue Bloc lost ground to the two newcomers: the Euroskeptic Danish People’s Party, and the libertarian Liberal Alliance.