‘He’s a decent principled man, with great integrity. But he’s not a real leader’ is the constant refrain from Jeremy Corbyn’s critics. At the same time, 52 per cent of the population have 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 Jeremy’s place. Isn’t it time we asked what kind of leader we need for today’s circumstances and therefore put the conventional parliamentary idea of leadership under scrutiny?
Let’s start by distinguishing Corbyn’s electability from his credibility as Prime Minister on the model required by our present unwritten constitution by which immense and mostly invisible powers are concentrated in the hands of a single individual.
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