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‘Revenge Reshuffle’: Winners and Losers
Corbyn’s first reshuffle had mainstream political journalists scrabbling for a story, which largely left them indulging the fantasies of the Labour right. So who were the real winners and losers?
The SNP surge north of the border can hardly be dismissed as a protest vote. Rather, years of Labour taking working class voters for granted combined with the galvanising effect of the independence referendum have forged a new opposition to the Westminster consensus.