General Election 2019

Eh?

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn, and I'm proud of the way he stood up to
vilification, dragged the party strongly onto the agenda of climate
change and fought Brexit. Brexit was always a right-wing, xenophobic
project – it would have been easy for a traditional Labour leader to
go with the flow, throwing migrants and democracy under a bus. Corbyn
understood that to support the Tory Brexit was suicide: those MPs in
Stoke and Doncaster who did so paid the price just as badly as those
who opposed it.

But we have to move on from Corbynism. I'm supposed to be one of its
architects, but I never liked the label. I'm a radical social
democrat, committed to an open migration system, tolerance of
minorities and to pursing social justice alongside economic justice.
Too many of my Labour comrades were simply nostalgic for the post-war
system, and some even for the Soviet Union.