Ahead of the election, Ed Miliband’s senior advisor David Axelrod was asked if the Labour politician had as much potential to succeed as his former client Barack Obama. His reply? ‘I think Obama’s a once-in-a-lifetime candidate.’
However, could Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn be the candidate to make it two-in-a-lifetime? Mr S only asks after the independent radical left magazine Red Pepper have ran a cover with Corbyn pictured in the style of the famous 2008 Barack Obama ‘Hope’ poster:
Ladies and gentlemen: the new Obama (apparently) pic.twitter.com/aevY60bfO4
— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) July 31, 2015
Still, unless by ‘hope’ they are referring to what Corbyn brings to the Tories, Mr S suspects he still has some way to go.
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