Corbyn was also a happy warrior. When his team gathered in the large corner meeting room in Norman Shaw South, which Ed Miliband had used as his office, the leader was upbeat: ‘We’re going to have a positive campaign. We’re going to do this and win. It’s going to be a victory for the people we need to support.’ If not all of his aides believed it, they were ready to die in a ditch for him, and they applauded anyway.
