Britain’s left can come back stronger than ever: 10 years ago this month, Corbyn saved Labour from its right-wing problem, and then the party machine turned on him. But all is not lost yet for the left, says KEITH FLETT IN 2025, discussion on the left is about how to shift a Labour government towards pursuing a more left-wing or at least social democratic agenda. For example, a clear break from austerity, a wealth tax, an end to cuts on benefits and a clear anti-racist position. Alternatively another focus is whether it’s possible to create an alternative left-wing political structure to challenge Labour on this basis. The media is highly unlikely to remember it or feature it but 10 years ago this month, June 2015, a potential answer to these points arose. Ed Miliband had lost the 2015 general election, with an unexpected win for Tory leader Dave Cameron. Miliband had led Labour mildly from the left but at the election the party had not decisively broken from Tory austerity, or developed a clear anti-racist policy. In fact on the party’s EdStone — a series of modest demands suggesting no clear break from the previous five years of Tory and Liberal Democrat coalition — it pledged the reverse. On May 8 2015 Miliband resigned as Labour leader, and Harriet Harman became interim leader. Nominations from MPs for a new leader opened on June 8 and closed on June 15. Thirty-five MPs needed to nominate a candidate for them to make the ballot. Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper easily cleared the threshold. Two others also did so. Liz Kendall from the Labour right, whose campaign manager was the then unknown Morgan McSweeney, and Jeremy Corbyn. Corbyn just got over the line with 36 nominations. A number of MPs, including my own, David Lammy in Tottenham, made it clear that while they did not fully agree with the Islington North MP, they felt it was important that there was a voice from the left on the ballot. This idea of Labour as a broad church of left and progressive views has since been abolished by Keir Starmer.
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