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| What would a win for Corbyn mean for Labour? Join our live look at the week | |
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| What next for Labour and Jeremy Corbyn? | |
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| Labour’s bitter leadership contest is set to come to a head this Saturday, with the result of the ballot due to be announced. Here, the Guardian’s John Harris talked about what we can expect. | |
| Corbyn has won – we know that. The Labour party is in a much more uncertain position: seemingly largely united as far as its newly inflated membership is concerned, but also troubled further towards the top. Some MPs are taking minders with them to the party conference. The party’s national executive thinks online abuse is such a toxic issue that it will now require members to sign up to a new code of conduct. There are voices on all sides of the party talking about “unity and taking the fight to the Tories” (it’s a cliche already), but the chances of all those MPs dutifully settling down and accepting Corbyn’s pre-eminence seem slim. Meanwhile, some voices – witness this parish’s Paul Mason – are calling for the most intransigent parliamentary anti-Corbynites to be replaced: “deselected”, as the Labour vernacular would have it. I’m curious to know: do people think JC and his people now have to complete their dominance of the party, or do they prefer the idea of a concerted attempt at some kind of detente? Do they even think that’s even possible? And also, is it time we all got our heads straight and acknowledged that Labour/the left is faced with a much longer haul than anything beginning with a win in 2020? I’m of the opinion – I think – that all this discord is a sign of a party fighting its way through an unavoidable crisis, and very little will become clear within the next five years. | |
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| Popular this week was a documentary on Donald Trump supporters, with the Guardian’s Paul Lewis interviewing a variety of people in Ohio (including Kathy Miller, who was chair of Republican presidential candidate campaign in Mahoning County). Great lines include Miller saying that there was no racism in the US until Obama. | |
| Another top story was based on a new survey finding that significant numbers of under 30s lack self-confidence and are at risk of mental health problems, with women the worst affected. | Another top story was based on a new survey finding that significant numbers of under 30s lack self-confidence and are at risk of mental health problems, with women the worst affected. |
| A number of readers were also (understandably) outraged by news that Mary Berry, queen of cakes, is leaving the Great British Bake Off as it moves to Channel 4. | A number of readers were also (understandably) outraged by news that Mary Berry, queen of cakes, is leaving the Great British Bake Off as it moves to Channel 4. |
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