Also: Hurricane Corbyn hits Glasgow, Cardiff and (West) Belfast; SNP councillor quits after racist abuse; and hard-line separatists set up new Scottish party.
Whoever they may elect as their new leader, it’s clear that we Conservatives must be ready to fight the battles of the 1970s and 1980s all over again.
“…can we say that if he won, and after due process, he’d like to see a far more profound version of the clause in the party’s constitution? Jez we can.”
Either Corbyn wins, and pursues niche crusades, or one of the others wins and is trapped in a party with furious Corbynites.
The man whose manifesto prescribes railway liveries praises Jeremy Corbyn for moving Labour away from “small and gimmicky policies.”
Burnham’s reactionary stance is indicative of a broader problem: a would-be leader who can’t move on from battles lost, but has nothing new to add.
The Labour leadership candidate’s manifesto is a weird mix of the very vague and the very specific. And one idea looks familiar…
Labour’s independent election review finds an electorate which wants an activist government that lives within its means. Where have we heard that before?
The other candidates, capitalist lackies, counter-revolutionaries and secret Tories all, are struggling in our poll.
The Blairite enforcer called the Islington MP’s nominators “morons”, but the journalist believes that the Labour right are to blame for the party’s woes.
The Chancellor’s move onto their territory in the Budget means the gap is, at least intellectually, far from unbridgeable for marooned Blairites.
But how vulnerable are we to suffering Labour’s fate? And what can we do to guard against it?
The comments accompanying the CWU’s endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn are illuminating and alarming.
The arch-Blairite commentator takes on the face of the Militant tendency about whether or not Labour can ever win from the hard left.
He appeals to the popular demand for authenticity – it would be dangerous to write him off.