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Corbyn – after Oldham

The Oldham by-election is an early suggestion that public support for the new Labour leadership is stronger than has been supposed.

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‘The Labour party is in disarray’, the media insists. Not nearly as much as the Conservative party. So far there are no accusations of Labour activists driven to suicide. So far no-one has resigned in disgrace. There are those in the Labour parliamentary wing who have yet to be persuaded, but they are diminishing. The tide has turned in favour of a more defined socialist agenda. At home the stress falls now on co-operative social values. International peace is the aim of the leadership, the party rank and file and the general public. The electoral test at Oldham suggests that Labour is on the right track.