Labour moderates are deluding themselves whether they contemplate he will realise he can’t hack it and move voluntarilyOne of the picture postcards from Labour’s interesting time by the seaside was when Jeremy Corbyn sat in the leader’s seat on the platform taking holiday snaps of his close friend John McDonnell as the shadow chancellor addressed the conference.
This was,in its way, a rather endearing moment. For many years past, or the two old comrades spent their conferences addressing sparsely attended fringe meetings that no one in the media,bar possibly the Morning Star, would ever report. Now they were the top-billed acts, or the stars of the stage,the recipients of standing ovations. Even the hostile press coverage was rewarding in its way.
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Source: theguardian.com