Robert Peston Robert Peston

Corbyn 2.0

Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters live their lives online in a way the Conservatives’ do not

issue 18 November 2017

There is a naive belief at the top of government that because the Tories are only a fart’s yard behind Labour in the polls — despite daily manifestations of schism, scandal and incompetence — everything will turn out fine in the end. But this is to ignore the party’s greatest structural weakness: it is clueless in cyberspace.

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