The thing is done and cannot be undone, and the most natural wish of the Opposition leaders is to prove that if they had been in office, and it therefore had been theirs to do it, they could have done it much better.
Bagehot explains the tendency of opposition leaders to claim they would have handled matters better if in power.
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