He described his style as leaning against the wind.

FORBES: Betting Against Market Fads

MPs were tired of trying to defend intellectually incoherent policies too often dictated by short-term electoral opportunism, while left-leaning activists suspected them of a New Labour-style plot to hijack the party.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

On discovering that this Ross Perot-style insurgency was getting him nowhere, he then became a left-leaning Democrat.

ECONOMIST: A steady lot, the Californians