The candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's improbable path to power

by Nunns, Alex

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Title Statements

Full title :The candidate : Jeremy Corbyn's improbable path to power / Alex Nunns.

Summary

In September of 2015 an earthquake shook the foundations of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong and uncompromising socialist, was elected to head the Labour Party. Corbyn didn't just win the leadership contest, he trounced his opponents. The establishment was aghast. The official opposition now had as its leader a man with a plan, according to the conservative Daily Telegraph, "to turn Britain into Zimbabwe." Drawing on first-hand interviews with those involved in the campaign, including its most senior figures, Nunns traces the origins of Corbyn's victory in the dissatisfactions with Blairism stirred by the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crash, the move to the left of the trades unions, and changes in the electoral rules of the Labour Party that turned out to be surreally at odds with the intentions of those who introduced them. The system of one-member-one-vote, which delivered Corbyn's success, was opposed by those on the left and was heralded by Tony Blair who described it as "a long overdue reform that... I should have done myself."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):OR Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:404 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1682190641, 9781682190647
oclc:ocn978585120
LC Classification:JN1129.L32
Dewey Decimal:324.24107092

1. Introduction -- 2. Led by Ed -- 3. The Jaws of Defeat -- 4. From Despair to Where? -- 5. Getting on the Ballot -- 6. Team Corbyn -- 7. A Movement Looking for a Home -- 8. Power in a Union -- 9. Division Bell -- 10. Panic in the Media -- 11. Hubris to Humiliation -- 12. The Corbyn Surge -- 13. The Empire Strikes Back -- 14. Triumph and Tribulations -- Afterword: The Summer Coup -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgements -- About the author.

Subjects

Biographies Corbyn, Jeremy Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies. -- Poli… Great Britain Great Britain -- Biography. -- Politics… Great Britain., Parliament Labour Party (Great Britain) LEGISLATORS Legislators -- Biography. -- Great Brit… Politics and government