WHY DID JEREMY CORBYN lose? The answer is obvious — a divisive leader with zero managerial skill and an incoherent manifesto was outgunned by Boris Johnson in 2019 because he could not decide his policy on Brexit, by far the biggest issue of the day.
But why did Jeremy Corbyn win? That may be the bigger question. The rise of Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour party was an event without parallel in British political history, an act of defiance by the party grassroots against its elites, who regarded the idea of Corbyn becoming leader as first laughable, then horrifying.
by James Schneider is not primarily an account of the Corbyn era, though the author — who quit his job