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🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 82 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.fmastres. 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. |
0:42.3 | It's not Corbinism. There is no such thing as Corpism. |
0:49.3 | Founded out of the trade unionist movement at the turn of the 20th century, the Labour Party |
0:54.8 | has always represented a broad church of the British left. Since overtaking the Liberal Party in the |
1:00.2 | 1920s, Labour of dominated British parliamentary politics alongside the Conservative Party. However, |
1:06.5 | electoral success has not always been easy to come by. Before Tony Blair became Labour leader in 1995, |
1:13.1 | it had been more than 15 years since Labour had last been in government. To win power, Blair |
1:18.4 | rebranded the party as New Labour, shifting it to the centre and away from its traditional socialist |
1:23.5 | routes, making a break with Clause 4 of Labour's constitution, which called for the common |
1:28.5 | ownership of industry. New Labour was a success, and Blair led the party to three successive |
1:33.5 | general election victories. Until in 2010, under the leadership of former Chancellor Gordon Brown, |
1:39.4 | they were finally beaten by a Tory Lib Dem coalition led by Conservative Party leader David Cameron. |
1:46.0 | New Labour were out of ideas. And, following the deeply unpopular Iraq war and the financial |
1:51.6 | crash of 2008, a new generation of young people who grew up in Blair's Britain were looking |
1:57.0 | for a change of direction. Ed Miliband's leadership of the party was often criticised |
2:02.3 | for not breaking decisively enough with new labour and was unable to stop Cameron from winning an outright |
2:07.6 | majority in 2015. Where Tony Blair had moved the party to the centre in 1995, 20 years later |
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