Some attacks against Mr Corbyn are now coming from normally loyal allies. One commentator has raised the possibility of 'Corbynism without Corbyn'
is said to have defined a politician as “an animal that can sit on the fence and yet keep both ears on the ground”. By that definition Jeremy Corbyn is failing in his vocation. The European elections bulldozed Mr Corbyn’s fence by giving the Labour Party just 14% of the vote in the country as a whole and 9% in its former stronghold of Scotland. They unleashed a furious debate that was ostensibly about the party’s stance on Europe in particular but also about Mr Corbyn’s leadership in general.
Senior figures such as Tom Watson, the deputy leader, and Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, were quick to blame Labour’s dismal performance on its refusal to offer wholehearted support for holding a second referendum and staying in the European Union. Others, particularly from the party’s working-class wing, were equally quick to push back. Gloria De Piero,for Ashfield, urged her colleagues not to let a single issue—Brexit—“wreck” the party.
Senior Labour figures are increasingly willing to criticise his leadership. There is nothing new about Mr Watson’s hostility to Mr Corbyn. But the days when the deputy could be denied a platform at his own party conference are long gone. He has formed a centre-left group of 80s and 70 peers to argue for more mainstream policies, and played a starring role at the People’s Vote march. Ms Thornberry harbours leadership ambitions of her own.
At the same time Mr Corbyn is becoming the prisoner of his closest advisers, who are odd creatures even by the standards of Britain’s increasingly eccentric politics. They are all, in various ways, closely allied to Mr McCluskey, Labour’s most pro-Leave trade-union baron. Two of them, Seamus Milne and Andrew Murray, are privately educated Marxists who have a soft spot for the Soviet Union.
In most ways Mr Corbyn could not be more different from Britain’s departing prime minister, Theresa May. She was the dutiful grammar-school girl who went to Oxford whereas he was the rebellious private-school boy who dropped out and plunged into the Islington of Che Guevara posters and Irish rebel songs. But Brexit makes odd bedfellows, and in strange ways he is beginning to resemble her.
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