Why did Jeremy Corbyn, 'this curmudgeonly septuagenarian' take his party, and then the nation, by storm?

by Ruth Kelly

Tony Blair, left, and Jeremy Corbyn at the Cenotaph in 2016
Photo: PA/Empics, Matt Crossick

It is not often that I read an account of the Labour Party and its years in government that changes my perspective on what was happening – and what is happening – to the Left in Britain. This book, however, does just that. It also leaves me strangely hopeful about the future

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