The UK's Bernie Sanders?
The New York Times' Stephen Castle interviewed a couple academics in the UK suggesting that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn might become PM in a couple years. Is this news?Jeremy Corbyn’s Rise From Political Dinosaur to Potential Leader
It is always satisfying to prove your doubters wrong and, in the case of Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, there were an awful lot of them.
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Written off as a hapless loser 12 months ago at his last party conference, Mr. Corbyn can expect a triumphant reception at this year’s event…
Last year, he was widely depicted as an unreconstructed Marxist and a political dinosaur, destined to lead Labour to electoral extinction. Now, Mr. Corbyn is seen, even by some opponents, as a prime minister in waiting…
At 68, Mr. Corbyn is in many ways a British version of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, except further left… In June, though, he exceeded expectations with a clever general election campaign that revealed him to be a personable, if not downright charming, candidate.
His unexpected ability to connect with voters, particularly young ones, coupled with a building opposition to Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, or Brexit, helped him deprive Prime Minister Theresa May of the landslide victory she had expected…
While Mr. Corbyn’s journey from zero to hero has been remarkable, Steven Fielding, a professor of political history at Nottingham University, says, the party conference in Brighton, England, will bring a new question into focus: whether Labour can shift from a defensive strategy primarily intended to keep control of his party to an offensive one that could take Labour to power…
While many of Britain’s predominantly right-wing newspapers remain hostile to Mr. Corbyn’s agenda, their tone has changed. Where the news media once pointed to his failure to sing the national anthem as evidence of his unsuitability for high office, recent articles have debated things like whether Mr. Corbyn is turning from vegetarianism to veganism (apparently he is not, though he is eating more vegan food)…
To win a general election, he will have to reach out to new voters, and “whether he is in a position to go and win a majority in Parliament is an open question,” said Mark Wickham-Jones, professor of political science at the University of Bristol…
That may be hard. By the time of the next election, the Conservatives are likely to have replaced Mrs. May with a more popular figure, and Mr. Corbyn and his agenda will probably face tougher news media scrutiny…
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