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Corbyn puts hope back on the menu
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO examines what a win for the veteran leftwinger would mean for the Labour Party

ANDY BURNHAM’S barely veiled threat that the Labour leadership result could be “open to legal challenge” is the latest evidence that Jeremy Corbyn is on course to win.

This is now the consensus in the media too. It seems a lifetime ago that our parliamentary reporter Luke James was lurking in the corridors of Parliament, pouncing on MPs who had offered to nominate Jeremy if he looked like getting on the ballot and asking them to make good their promises.

This is no time for complacency — the Corbyn campaign needs every vote — but the debate is shifting from whether he will win to what happens when he does.

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