Have Labour MPs who oppose Jeremy Corbyn just given up? Given many of them have chosen to stay on the frontbench after the reshuffle in which the Labour leader made clear that it was his way or the highway, and also that he does want to change party policy on Trident after all, it looks as though many have just resigned themselves to a miserable few years in which they struggle to mount any meaningful resistance to the Labour leader.
It’s certainly true that Corbyn’s opponents don’t have a clear plan for removing him. Some of them have concluded that the best option is for the unions to turn against him, joining the parliamentary Labour party in their opposition. Trying to turn Labour into a unilateralist party would be one way Corbyn could turn the GMB against him, something Sir Paul Kenny made quite clear yesterday.
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