Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour is a contributing editor at Salvage magazine and the author of Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics.

Letter

Bye Bye Labour

22 April 2015

Matthew Young is mistaken to think that Tony Blair’s electoral success proves the decisiveness of the centre ground (Letters, 7 May). Blair lost three million voters in his first term alone, and his third election victory was won with a smaller share of the vote than the Conservatives failed to win with in 2010. Tory weakness shielded him.In the 2015 election, the parties of the centre have done...

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