Back to the future as Corbyn romps home

Jeremy Corbyn easily won the election for the leadership of the British Labour Party yesterday, in a stunning victory for the left after a campaign that has turned the party upside down.

Corbyn’s left-wing message – he promised to nationalise the railway and energy industries, raise taxes and increase spending – enjoys little support among the party’s MPs, but his barnstorming campaign energised the party’s grassroots.

They flocked to his meetings, and endorsed ...