The big question in Labour’s leadership contest is not whether Jeremy Corbyn will win, but how much he’ll win by. There is, it seems, an inexhaustible supply of Corbynistas standing ready to join the party – so the moderates who had hoped that a formal leadership challenge would be a vehicle of deposing him have had to think again. Neil Kinnock said this weekend that he’ll probably never live to see another Labour government. So Labour’s only hope, for now, is that the 67-year-old Corbyn might change.
During his interview on Today this morning we’ve been offered a taste of what his leadership will look like if (or, rather, when) he wins. The depressing news for Labour MPs is that it looks like it will be business as usual. But with a smiling face. When asked whether he would ‘reach out’ to his rivals in Parliament, he has this to say:
‘Of course I am going to reach out to them, as I have reached out to them in the past.
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