Attention has naturally fixated on Labour’s leadership soap opera, since it involves the eviction of a prime minister elected on a landslide only two years ago and his replacement by a man for whom a by-election had to be engineered so he could return to the House of Commons as a necessary prelude to mounting his coup.
Unlike the Tories, for whom regicide is second nature, this is the first time since Ramsay Macdonald in 1931 that Labour has dumped a leader against his will – a decapitation in which even Labour members didn’t get to vote, never mind the electorate.
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