Corbyn’s Labour has done well. To win power it needs to do far better | Martin Kettle

June’s election didn’t prove that voters long for a leftwing programme. The truth is far more complex

At a memorial event yesterday for the political scientist Anthony King, John Bercow recalled one of the things that always made King such an illuminating commentator on British elections. The House of Commons Speaker – a student of King’s at Essex University – observed that, while party politicians reflexively respond to election results with exaggerated claims and pitiful denials, King had a simple motto that cut through the spin: “Focus on the evidence.”

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