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Corbynism: The Post-Mortem

2: Inside the Parliamentary Labour Party

Corbynism: The Post-Mortem

Corbynism: The Post-Mortem

Society & Culture, National, Government, News, Politics, Documentary

4.4285 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Episode 2 focuses on the internal battle for Labour's soul, exploring the Parliamentary Labour Party's conflict with the leader's office, featuring former Labour MP for Redcar, Anna Turley.

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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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