A Question of Leadership
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1282 .... July 19, 2016
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A Question of Leadership
The ‘new politics’ Jeremy Corbyn proclaims must be an explicit agenda of institutional change, not simply a change of style at the dispatch box.
Hilary Wainwright
‘He's a decent man, with great integrity -- but he's not a real leader’ is the constant refrain from Jeremy Corbyn's critics, questioning his electability. At the same time, half of the voting population has railed -- in the Brexit vote -- against the establishment, jam packed with would-be and retired leaders of the kind that critics want to put in Corbyn's place. Isn't it time we put the idea of leadership as we know it under scrutiny?
Let's start by distinguishing Jeremy Corbyn's electability from his credibility as prime minister on the model required... by our present unwritten constitution, under which immense and mostly invisible powers are concentrated on Her Majesty's First Minister.