At any other time, the election of a new Labour Party leader would be a front-page story. Tomorrow’s announcement will happen, but will hardly scratch the consciousness of a nation with other things on its mind.
Compass, the organisation I'm the Director of, ended its singular link with Labour in 2011 when our membership voted to welcome people of all parties and none who back our Good Society values. The bet was that the complexity and scale of the challenges we faced were too big for the already shrinking forces of social democracy to manage alone. We think we were right – but we would, wouldn’t we?
But while we need a very plural future, the political reality is that under a first-past-the-post voting system Labour remains the biggest tent on the progressive campsite. So, who leads it matters. But whoever is declared the victor tomorrow will be of little significance, unless they lead very differently.
