Corbyn’s man of the future act is hooked on dogmas of the past | Simon Jenkins

Look behind the slogans and Labour’s new project reeks of pre-Blair revivalism, not the radicalism of the left

Jeremy Corbyn’s passage from antihero to premier-in-waiting is the phenomenon of modern politics. Three months ago the idea was absurd that a gauche, accident-prone backbench grump might plausibly stand before cheering supporters and declare himself “in the political mainstream … on the threshold of power and ready for government”. Yet so it is. Were Theresa May’s Tories to implode, w...