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Evening Standard comment: Socialist manifesto leaves Labour no excuse

This newspaper unreservedly withdraws the complaint it made about the Labour Party earlier this week. We said that the problem with Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was that it offered neither a bid for the centre-ground nor a radical socialist alternative; instead we were being presented with a series of lame gimmicks, such as extra bank holidays. The leak of the draft of Labour’s manifesto shows we were wrong. The Corbyn leadership is preparing to put forward the most Left-wing programme for government that the country has seen in over 30 years.