Tomorrow just before noon, Jeremy Corbyn is set to be crowned leader of the Labour party for a second time, possibly, according to insiders, with an even bigger mandate than the one he’s spent the past year waving at his own party. And after months of resignations, fighting, and a leadership contest where the challenger failed to capture the Labour membership’s imagination, Labour MPs are considering what they should do now. Their options are as follows:
1. Leave the party, either by defecting to another or setting themselves up as an independent Labour MP on the benches in the Commons.
There is no suggestion that any MP is seriously considering doing this. The Tories’ battle over grammar schools makes them significantly less attractive to the centrist Blairite types who think that what matters is what works: May’s inability to explain how grammar schools would work when pressed by Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs recently drove that home.
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