Labour’s leadership campaign lurches left with Jeremy Corbyn

Leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn's last-minute nomination for party leader has put Labour in a predicament. Emily Hohler reports.

The dynamics of the Labour leadership election were "radically altered" when, at the last minute, the 66-year-old leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn secured the 35 nominations required to stand, says Patrick Wintour in The Guardian. His inclusion demoralised some Labour MPs who said it would "pervert the centre of gravity of the debate even further from where the public are".

Corbyn's presence on the ballot paper confirms that Labour "still doesn't get it", says Dan Hodges in The Daily Telegraph. If Labour was going to have a "proper debate", Corbyn's hard-left views would "already have been consigned to the dustbin of history". Instead, it's chosen to go "rummaging through Michael Foot's dustbin".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.