What next for Labour moderates?

Normally after an election, the leader of the party that came second comes to the first meeting of their parliamentary party and promises an inquiry into what went wrong. As Katy reported from the Parliamentary Labour Party meeting last night, no such thing happened when Jeremy Corbyn spoke to MPs. He received a standing ovation from all but two members, and the tone of the meeting was very much about how well Labour had done. 

This is the dominant narrative: that Labour basically won the election by gaining seats, and the Tories lost it even though they remain the largest party. Politically, of course, Theresa May has lost: it was her decision to call an election and her campaign that cost the Tories seats. But Labour still didn’t ‘win’ in any meaningful sense beyond the fact that it massively exceeded expectations.

Corbyn did tell MPs last night that there would be an analysis of the demographic that Labour particularly struggled with.