Anyone observing or participating in the continuing collective trauma of Britain’s Brexit debate should pay more attention to Jeremy Corbyn and some of the most important — and to some people, surprising — things he has done as Labour leader.
Here’s a short list:
1. Promised big handouts for the middle class.
Mr Corbyn ran his 2017 general election campaign offering huge middle class subsidies from the state. Scrapping tuition fees and offering “free” universal higher education would be a gift to the better-off, whose kids still dominate university entry. (Just look at Scotland.) And the gift would be funded by non-graduate workers’ taxes.
2. Defended unearned wealth
Mr Corbyn opposed a progressive attempt to fund social care from the accumulated wealth of older, richer people who bought property saw its value inflated by ultra-loose monetary policy and hope to pass it on to their kids.
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