The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power - Softcover

Alex Nunns

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1682190641 ISBN 13: 9781682190647

Publisher: OR Books, 2016

Synopsis

*WINNER OF THE 2017 BREAD & ROSES AWARD FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING* "This is a fascinating account of why—as well as how—Jeremy became leader of the Labour Party and transformed our politics. For anyone engaged in this movement, understanding precisely how we came to be where we are can only make us more effective as we go forward. That's why Alex Nunns' book is so important." —John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer "A valuable, insightful account … too well-reported not to read." —Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian "The best researched account I've seen to date." —Clive Lewis MP "If you’ve been inspired by the movement growing around Jeremy Corbyn, or simply want to know a bit more about the Labour leader’s unlikely rise to power, this is the book for you.” —Liam Young, columnist, The Independent In September 2015 an earthquake shook the foundations of British politics. Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong and uncompromising socialist, was elected to head the Labour Party. How this remarkable twist of events came about is the subject of Alex Nunns’ highly readable and richly researched account. Drawing on first-hand interviews with those involved in the campaign, including its most senior figures, Nunns traces the origins of Corbyn’s victory in the dissatisfaction with Blairism stirred by the Iraq War and the 2008 financial crash, the move to the left of the trade unions, and changes in the electoral rules of the Labour Party that turned out to be surreally at odds with the intentions of those who introduced them. The system of one-member-one-vote, which delivered Corbyn’s success, was opposed by those on the left and was heralded by Tony Blair who described it as “a long overdue reform that… I should have done myself.” Giving full justice to the dramatic swings and nail-biting tensions of an extraordinary summer in UK politics, Nunns’ telling of a story that has received widespread attention but little understanding is as illuminating as it is entertaining.

Edition details

• Publisher: OR Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1682190641
• ISBN 13: 9781682190647
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 406