Left for dead?: the strange death and rebirth of the Labour Party

A timely and provocative account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Corbyn, and what it means for the left in Britain and the wider Western world. Since the financial crisis of 2008 the political left across the Western world has lurched from disaster to catastrophe and back again. Western politics, newly bisected by renewed forces of nationalism, appeared increasingly to be played out on the right side of the political spectrum alone. In Britain, the decline of the left seemed at its most chronic. A Conservative party resurgent, a far-left take over, an apparently fateful general election on the horizon, Brexit tearing its electoral coalition asunder. The party seemed to be withering around the two new axes of British politics introduced by two referenda: Scottish independence and Brexit. Labour seemed destined for long term irrelevance. And then it all changed. Far from being ground zero of the Leftist disease, at one fell stroke the general election of 2017 provided Labour...