It’s an overcast Saturday evening at England’s Glastonbury Festival in June 2017. A huge crowd has gathered in front of the Other Stage to watch the grime artist Stormzy, who is still two years away from being the first Black British solo artist to headline the festival’s main Pyramid Stage. The fans in the crowd wave flags and hold drinks – and they chant. Stormzy hears them and smiles.
“Oh, Jeremy Corbyn, hey!” he sings. The crowd joins in, louder. The camera pans to a woman wearing a bootleg Nike top with the word ‘Corbyn’ underneath the swoosh logo. “Glastonbury, this is what it’s all about right now,” says Stormzy.
In 2024, a rather different atmosphere surrounds Corbyn’s successor as leader of the Labour Party, former top prosecutor Keir Starmer.
