As the UK's Labour party leadership contest enters the final stretch and speculation escalates about a victory for Jeremy Corbyn, a backbencher on the party's left-wing, some students might be interested to read some political commentary of the event.
- First, a video primer on the who, what, and why of the leadership contest by IBTimes UK:
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Also, a Guardian guide to where the four Labour candidates stand.
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The progressive New Statesman ponders, what happens if Jeremy Corbyn wins?
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Two voices from the Independent think a Corbyn-led Labour could succeed, or at least have an ironic historical precedent.
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Labour's own Tony Blair thinks Corbyn's politics are as fantastical as Alice in Wonderland.
- William Hague, Conservative MP and former leader of the Opposition against Blair, thinks that Corbyn's rise symbolizes Labour's slow drift into irrelevance.