What the Tories don’t understand about Corbyn voters

Until recently, the Tories seemed pretty confident about next week’s election. Despite spending three and a half years blundering over Brexit, they were still comfortably ahead of Labour in the polls. In Jeremy Corbyn, they had an opposition leader denounced as a terrorist sympathiser, an unreconstructed communist, a rabid anti-Semite and — in general — an enemy of Britain. You might regard Corbyn this way yourself. If so, then it’s worth asking: if he really is so bad, why has support for Labour been steadily increasing since the election was called? Is the nation going mad — or might there be more to it?

I’ve supported and campaigned for Corbyn’s type of politics most of my adult life. Perhaps I’m far too embedded in the choir to be able to spot whether he is as off-tune as the headlines say — but if he ends up in No. 10 it would make perfect sense to me.