They needed Labour’s party machine, with its spreadsheets and budgets and cumulative wisdom of campaigns gone by. Among Corbyn’s allies, however, there was always a confidence that he would win through once the public began to focus on Labour’s policies. Many of the members of that core team had already been meeting daily to plan Labour’s local election campaign. Andrew Fisher, Labour’s executive director of policy, spent the fortnight after the election was called in a race against time to complete the manifesto, which would form the intellectual backbone of Labour’s campaign. For now, though, that extraordinary election campaign and its aftermath will continue to make the political weather.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2017 04:30 UTC