Notes from the front – of the week 17/6/2015
Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott – challenging Labour’s rightward shift
Jeremy Corbyn’s success in securing sufficient nominations to contest the Labour leadership election has galvanised the left of the party. The notion that Labour lost May’s General Election because it was too ‘left’ will now be challenged in the contest. Corbyn will campaign for Labour to break with austerity and for a foreign policy independent of US diktats.