The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyns Improbable Path to Power - Alex Nunns
Category: Misc. Non-fiction
Tags: Misc. Non-fiction, Political
In June 2017, an earthquake shook the very foundations of British politics. With Labour widely predicted to suffer a crushing defeat in the general election, Jeremy Corbyn instead achieved a stunning upset - a hung parliament, the humiliation of Theresa Mays government, and more than 40 percent of the vote., A lifelong and uncompromising socialist, Corbyn had, against all expectations, been dramatically elected leader of the party in September 2015. In the space of less than two years, he had progressed from 200-to-one outsider for the Labour Party leadership to become an apparent Prime Minister-in-waiting., How these events came about is the subject of Alex Nunns highly listenable and richly researched account. Drawing on firsthand interviews with those involved in the leadership and general-election campaigns, including Labours most senior figures, Nunns traces the origins of Corbyns ascent. Giving full justice to the dramatic swings and nail-biting tensions of an extraordinary momen
