Is this the summer the British left comes back?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today. |
| 0:10.8 | Is this the summer the British Left makes a comeback? |
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| 1:02.7 | Question number one, Mr Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 1:08.0 | Will the Prime Minister accept that 10 years ago in 1979? When Zara Saltona was born, Jeremy Corbyn had already been a member of |
| 1:12.7 | Parliament for over a decade. There were 2,750 households in temporary accommodation in London. |
| 1:20.1 | The current figure is over 25,000. She's the MP for Coventry South. |
| 1:24.9 | Maiden speech, Zara Sultanna. |
| 1:28.3 | When she was 26, she became the youngest Muslim to ever be elected into Parliament. |
| 1:34.3 | Part of that hopeful, fresh-faced, labour intake of 2019. |
| 1:39.3 | I would like to start by giving a heartfelt thanks to the people of country south for putting their faith in me. |
| 1:45.7 | Corbyn is the MP for Islington North. At 76, he is the battle-weary backbencher, turned Labour |
| 1:53.6 | leader, with decades of grassroots activism behind him. For different reasons, both of them are |
| 2:00.7 | out of Labour now. |
| 2:01.9 | Let me be very clear about that. |
| 2:04.5 | Jeremy Corbyn will not stand for Labour at the next general election as a Labour Party candidate. |
| 2:11.0 | Zara Sultanah, the Coventry South MP, has been suspended from the Labour web since last September, |
| 2:16.8 | has just announced that she's |
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