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It's The Economist, so no surprises really. They remain ideologically neutral with regard to partisan politics (which is why it's always a pretty good source of news), but ideologically cemented within the global liberal world. Fair points for consistency and honesty. But the piece ignores the key question: why are people (not just parties) abandoning the project they're backing?
To be fair, that wasn't the question they were engaging with, but they spent the majority of the piece attacking (all three!) parties for not supporting it in various ways. If a continuation of the policies started in the 1980s is the way forward the argument needs to address how these policies will start helping those people and things which have suffered due to them.
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The Economist backs the Lib Dems, but mainly thinking of the world past 9 June
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21722855-leaders-both-main-parties-have-turned-away-decades-old-vision-open-liberal?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/thebritishelectionthemiddlehasfallenoutofbritishpolitics
Maybe not to everyone's tastes on here, but for the record