Corbinism, the post-mortem, is kindly sponsored by the Media Masters podcast, a series of one-to-one

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Mediamasters.fm.m. And now, here's the show. This is obviously a very disappointing night

for the Labour Party. I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.

I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result

and on the policies that the party will take going forward.

It's not, it's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corpulism. Following Ed Miliband's resignation,

after a bruising 2015 general election defeat, the Labour Party, led by interim leader Harriet Harman,

launched a leadership election to replace him. The Parliamentary Labour Party, or PLP, having been

transformed by more than 15 years in power under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's centre-left new Labour

government, were now seen as out of ideas by the electorate. Following Labor's second

successive defeat to David Cameron's One Nation pro-aulsterity Conservative Party, Labor was

searching to find its identity. Labor's far left, which had been a dormant force in the PLP since

Neil Kinnock sidelined Tony Ben's wing of the party in the early 1980s, prepared their token

candidate for the leadership election, with few expecting them to pass the threshold of nominations

required to make the ballot. In the spirit of broadening the debate around policy, Labour

members of Parliament lent their votes to the party's Benite Socialist Campaign Group nomination

for leader, Jeremy Corbyn, MP.

Jeremy Corbyn was a viral success, with the Stop the War Coalition Chair riding a wave of

popularity, particularly with a generation of young Brits that grew up in the shadow of the Iraq

war and suffering from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis and successive years of austerity

governance and declining public services.

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