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Corbyn wasn't all bad

Labour has to learn from the successes as well as the failures of the past.

Corbyn wasn't all bad
Jeremy Corbyn leaving home on 3 April, on the day he's due to meet Theresa May to discuss Brexit | David Mirzoeff/PA Wire/PA Images
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I was ready to let the Corbyn era drift off into the sunset and enjoy the fond memories of some and the disdain of others. That was until I read Sarah Baxter in the Sunday Times, whose words compelled me to write yet more.

Baxter, who I recall vaguely but fondly, from the early New Labour years when she was at the New Statesman, wrote a tirade against all things Corbyn, demanding indeed a “Corbynite clear-out’.