Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership in the first round with an extraordinary 59.5 per cent of the vote. Andy Burnham came second.
This is the result everyone was expecting: or at least what they had come to expect after initially expecting Corbyn to be at worst the joke candidate and at best the figure who enabled a debate about the ideas of the Left.
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We are not surprised today that a backbencher from Islington has won the party leadership, but the party is still trying to work out how it has changed this much, and how its conventional leaders in waiting failed to inspire the membership in the way they had expected. Andy Burnham has been campaigning for this job for nearly five years, giving rousing conference speeches and unnerving his party colleagues with his clear ambition.
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