It’s not as easy as you’d think to find parallels between British and American politicians. Being a party leader in the UK parliament is almost nothing like being a US Presidential candidate. America’s far larger and more fragmented than Britain. Pennsylvania alone has 90 per cent of the land area of England, and four million more people live there than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland combined. It’s probably better to compare the US to the EU rather than the UK, and the Republicans and Democrats to the fractious coalitions of regional groups making up the EPP and S&D in the European Parliament.
That said, I think there’s a clear parallel between Jeremy Corbyn and an “outsider” running in the 2016 presidential campaign. Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders is firing up the left wing base and is proud to call himself a socialist.
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