Last Sunday, Jeremy Corbyn walked on stage at the Bradford Literature Festival to deafening applause and cheers from more than 700 people.
Both the audience’s size and fierce reaction were unexpected. I had been asked to chair the talk with the former Labour leader, and organisers had said weeks earlier that around 200 tickets had sold.
The reality had been particularly surprising since the media treats Corbyn as something of a non-person – a position made easier by the current Labour leadership obviously wanting him to disappear into never-never land.
