Bower tries in vain to convince readers that Corbyn is unfit for office

The accidental Labour leader will soon be 70 and having spent the first 30 years of his political career in the back benches, on the far right of his party, a change in political climate led to Corbyn being elected Labour leader in 2015,, two years later in 2017 election his party put in a strong performance depriving Theresa May’s Conservatives of a parliamentary majority.

 Corbyn, a middle class boy, brought who was brought up in some comfort in the shires, privately educated, graduating with just two E’ at A-Level, after a stint in teaching in Jamaica and dropping out of polytechnic, he was caught up in the political activism of the early 1970s, before becoming an MP in 1983. Although a campaigner for human rights, he is notorious for his passion, for foreign affairs with an anti- American and “anti-imperial” flavour, but Corbynism is a very interesting phenomenon. Corbyn’s image as a moral paragon has been crucial to his rise including his high-profile opposition to the Iraq war. As a Labour leader Corbyn was reluctant to accept Russia being behind the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal. Corybn has also been accused of tolerating and even fostering anti-semitism within Labour party. Even Bower cannot convince or demonstrate definitely that Corbyn is an anti-Semite. Yet Corbyn’s actions go beyond simply mixing with anti-Zionist organisations, as he has gone out of his way to defend people promoting anti-Semitic views – such a vicar who suggested that Israel was behind th 9/1 terror attacks. Despite all this Corbyn’s followers adore him.

 Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power By Tom Bower, William Collins £20, 400 pages.