recent Democrats seek direction as party gives itself two years to find a recent leader and press reset on political agenda fuelled by campaign wake-up callIn the sunny days of August – some 11 weeks before a federal election that would totally alter Canada’s political pecking order – the future looked bright for the country’s leftwing recent Democratic party.
Polls suggested the party was poised to move from the official opposition to main the government. Across the Atlantic,Jeremy Corbyn was challenging the establishment as the frontrunner for Labour leadership in Britain. And in the US, tens of thousands were flocking to arenas to hear what socialist Bernie Sanders had to say. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com