Jezmania is a joke that will wear thin

Jeremy Corbyn has grabbed the headlines, but his campaign is doomed to fail. Emily Hohler reports.

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Jeremy Corbyn: the man who gobsmacked the Blairites

After an unexpected electoral success on 8 May, the Tories are now being "gifted a Labour party eating itself", says Andrew Rawnsley in The Observer. The popularity of 66-year-old leftie, Jeremy Corbyn, the current frontrunner for the leadership of the Labour party, has "gobsmacked the Blairites" who thought that Ed Miliband's defeat would be the cue to "retake control of Labour, not for a big chunk of the party to stampede off in the opposite direction". With hindsight, however, it's not so surprising. The stress inflicted by austerity and a revolt against political elites have been splitting the left all over Europe.

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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.