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🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Corbinism, the post-mortem, is kindly sponsored by the Media Masters podcast, a series of one-to-one |
0:06.1 | interviews with the very biggest media names, hosted by Paul Blanchard. You can tune in any time at |
0:11.7 | Mediamasters.fm.m. And now, here's the show. This is obviously a very disappointing night |
0:19.0 | for the Labour Party. I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. |
0:28.6 | I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result |
0:36.6 | and on the policies that the party will take going forward. |
0:43.5 | It's not, it's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corpulism. Following Ed Miliband's resignation, |
0:50.7 | after a bruising 2015 general election defeat, the Labour Party, led by interim leader Harriet Harman, |
0:56.9 | launched a leadership election to replace him. The Parliamentary Labour Party, or PLP, having been |
1:02.4 | transformed by more than 15 years in power under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's centre-left new Labour |
1:06.9 | government, were now seen as out of ideas by the electorate. Following Labor's second |
1:11.7 | successive defeat to David Cameron's One Nation pro-aulsterity Conservative Party, Labor was |
1:17.5 | searching to find its identity. Labor's far left, which had been a dormant force in the PLP since |
1:23.0 | Neil Kinnock sidelined Tony Ben's wing of the party in the early 1980s, prepared their token |
1:28.2 | candidate for the leadership election, with few expecting them to pass the threshold of nominations |
1:32.7 | required to make the ballot. In the spirit of broadening the debate around policy, Labour |
1:37.7 | members of Parliament lent their votes to the party's Benite Socialist Campaign Group nomination |
1:42.3 | for leader, Jeremy Corbyn, MP. |
1:44.8 | Jeremy Corbyn was a viral success, with the Stop the War Coalition Chair riding a wave of |
1:49.0 | popularity, particularly with a generation of young Brits that grew up in the shadow of the Iraq |
1:53.7 | war and suffering from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis and successive years of austerity |
1:59.5 | governance and declining public services. |
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