Jeremy Corbyn takes part in a class showing how to make cheap healthy food. PA Images.
Last week Labour party strategists spoke of relaunching Jeremy Corbyn as a more populist figure in the New Year. The big idea? To exploit an increasingly widespread anti-establishment mood.
First up, what is a populist? Well, this definition on Wikipedia (don’t worry its actually from Princeton University) is as a good place as any to start: “"Populism is a political outlook or disposition that appeals to the interests and conceptions (such as hopes and fears) of the general population, especially when contrasting any new collective consciousness push against the prevailing status quo.” Inherently, then, it integrates elements of what we’d usually think particular to political parties and social movements
