This weekend, the Labour party will convene in Liverpool for its annual conference. By that point it will have a new leader who, if all current polling is to be believed, will be the same as its old one. Jeremy Corbyn looks set to defy the wishes of his fellow MPs and strengthen his grip on the party. In his cover piece this week, James Forsyth looks at the whole of the far left movement, from the leader’s office to the grass roots activists, and observes that ‘they are tightening their grip over the party from top to bottom, something the Blairites never did.’ So, what’s next for the Labour party? Does it have a future appealing to moderate social democrats? Or has it truly been lost to the momentum of this new movement? James Forsyth thinks the race is over:
‘We await the result on Saturday, I don’t think we can say with baited breath because everyone is operating under the assumption that Jeremy Corbyn has won.
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