The winner of the Conservative leadership contest will be the third prime minister in four years to take on Jeremy Corbyn, which is a measure of serial Tory dysfunction and the Labour leader’s tenacity. Diane Abbott admits she is “beginning to worry” about Labour’s Brexit position. There is not much point trying to decrypt what happens inside the Labour leader’s head on this subject. It is hard to present Corbyn as a man for the future, and May’s departure will date him even more. The prospect of Britain having a radical Labour government is sliding into the gap that has opened up between an idea people once called “Jeremy Corbyn” and the actual Jeremy Corbyn.

Source: The Guardian July 02, 2019 16:52 UTC