I went to my first live political event this weekend, organised by the big tent ideas festival, with actual people in a room together as opposed to talking to each other through their computer screens. It felt like taking a trip back to 2019. Unfortunately, some of the contributions from the speakers felt a little like a throwback to that time as well, particularly in the case of Fabian Hamilton, Labour’s shadow minister for peace and disarmament.
Hamilton was speaking about the UK’s foreign policy, and his contribution revealed how little the Labour party really have changed since Corbyn stepped down as leader – despite the party’s ‘under new management’ message.
Hamilton was asked at the event how Labour would do things differently if the party were in power. What he presented as the next Labour government’s ideas on foreign policy were confused, loaded with contradictions and only really made any sense through the lens of the Corbynista worldview.
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