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A YEAR ago, as Labour sought to recover from the May general election defeat, halls were starting to fill up for Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign rallies. But even as the halls got bigger and the queues round the block longer, few would ever have imagined that this would result in the left for once being on the winning side.
The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs never accepted the vote, they bided their time and chose the moment for their coup and in a fashion to cause maximum damage.
Now, a year on, those halls will be once more filling for up Corbyn all summer long. Richard Seymour’s Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics is to date the best, and the definitive, account of what Corbyn’s victory the first time round meant. One year on, the essential summer 2016 read.
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