No one has yet been able to tell the full story of why Jeremy Corbyn rose from rank outsider to winning the Labour Party leadership.
Some people have suggested reasons for Corbyn’s popularity. He was confident and stood for something, unlike the three other Labour leader hopefuls. His call for a bottom-up policy process appealed to people alienated from the Party. He tapped into a latent, deep discontent with austerity.
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