Seeing red
Jeremy Corbyn will probably win—but then run into trouble
IT IS hard to exaggerate the chaos of the Labour Party in the 1980s. It once held a press conference to announce that Michael Foot was still party leader. Visitors to Walworth Road, recalls Tom Watson, now a party grandee, were “met at the front door by two striking miners and their table full of Davy lamps and buckets of shrapnel” and treated to harmonica recitals of “The Red Flag”. On Peter Mandelson’s first day as head of communications one colleague tried to kill another with poison.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Seeing red”
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