Chris Mullin

Whatever next?

Rosa Prince gives us Corbyn’s modest, decent past but shies away from speculating about a mind-boggling future

‘Ah, Jeremy,’ remarked Tony Blair at a smart dinner party in Islington not long before he became prime minister, ‘he hasn’t made the journey.’ As it turned out, this was something of an understatement. And yet here we are, 20 years on, and the Right Honourable Jeremy Corbyn is leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition.

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