Old Newscast: How Jeremy Corbyn Won The Labour Leadership 2015 (Part 2)
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In Part Two of this Old Newscast, we pick up with Jeremy Corbyn on the campaign trail.
Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn entered the leadership contest with many doubting he would win the necessary 35 nominations from Labour MPs to make it on to the ballot. Three months later, on the 12th September 2015, he was elected as leader with almost 60% of the vote.
Adam is joined by two journalists who followed each twist and turn of the 2015 Labour leadership contest, Jane Merrick and Nick Watt, to revisit how the Corbyn campaign won.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to the second episode of this old newscast, where we are discussing how Jeremy Corbyn won the 2015 Labour Leadership Election. |
| 0:14.5 | A few weeks ago, we recorded these episodes with two journalists who followed the Labour leadership election of 2015 incredibly closely, |
| 0:22.0 | Jane Merrick and Nick Watt. |
| 0:24.1 | We started episode one on the morning after the 2015 general election, |
| 0:28.4 | when a defeated, but maybe also slightly relieved, Ed Miliband stood down as Labour leader, |
| 0:35.7 | triggering an absolutely fascinating competition to replace him. |
| 0:39.3 | If you've not listened to the first episode yet, go back and listen to that before |
| 0:43.1 | coming back and listening to this one. We will pick up where we left off. The very left-wing |
| 0:48.5 | candidate Jeremy Corbyn has got the necessary 35 nominations from Labour MPs just in the nick of |
| 0:54.0 | time and is officially now a candidate for Labour leader. So let's re-react. has got the necessary 35 nominations from Labour MPs just in the nick of time |
| 0:54.3 | and is officially now a candidate for Labour leader. |
| 0:57.7 | So let's return to the summer of 2015 and join Jeremy Corbyn on the campaign trail |
| 1:02.3 | in this episode of Old Newscast. |
| 1:05.1 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:07.8 | I didn't set out in life with any overwheeling ambition to do anything. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 1:15.1 | Those colleagues who nominated me, MPs who nominated me, |
| 1:18.1 | may not necessarily agree with me. |
| 1:19.7 | This is the, I think I'm right in saying, |
| 1:22.7 | 83rd event we've done. |
| 1:24.5 | Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader of the Labour House. |
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