Is Tony Blair on the verge of a comeback?

The last few years have been tough for Jeremy Corbyn. One minute you’re being heralded by the trustafarians of Glastonbury; the next you’re leading Labour to its worst result since 1935. Rejected by the electorate, suspended by his party, the world’s unluckiest anti-racist has found himself embroiled in a series of minor self-inflicted scandals, whether that be speaking next to a dubious ten foot inflatable sheikh or telling the intellectual adolescents of Cambridge that ‘Luciana Berger was not hounded out of Labour.’ 

Having lost the election, the whip and at times even the plot, the onetime leader of the opposition can add to that list his once iron-clad grip of the Labour faithful. A new poll by YouGov, published at the beginning of this month, reveals the magic Grandpa is even less popular among card-carrying socialists than his old foe Tony Blair, under whom Corbyn rebelled quite literally hundreds of times. The survey of Labour members found more than half – 55 per cent – have a favourable opinion of the former prime minister with 43 per cent ranking him in ‘unfavourable’ terms. This