Can Labour survive its civil war?

Jeremy Corbyn is still the leader of the Labour party after 100 days at the helm, but he has yet to win mass support.

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Jeremy Corbyn is still at the helm of the Labour party

"The world hasn't ended," says Michael Chessum in the New Statesman. "One hundred days into Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, and Labour still exists." Opinion polls are improving and thousands have joined the Labour party. But if the left has "every right to shout about its achievements" such as John McDonnell pushing Chancellor George Osborne into "open retreat on tax credit cuts" this is also a time for "sober reflection". Many folk are "tuning out" and Corbyn must find a formula to "widen Labour's base and win back mass support".

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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.