What do the polls say about Corbyn's agenda? Flickr/Bob Peters. Some rights reserved.
Commentators across the political spectrum have finally found something they can agree on: Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable. Some on the right make clear their disdain for all he stands for. Others, on the centre left, have a more subtle argument. We’d love to vote for him, they say, but he’d never win over the wider public – so it’s time to get real.
These arguments don’t win any prizes for originality, and they’re not much better in terms of accuracy. One of the positive results from the failure of polls to predict the election result is a greater scepticism about what they can tell us – but they remain useful evidence of how public opinion stands. Here are some areas where it can be useful to compare this against accepted wisdom.
