Posted: Apr 25, 2021 10:38 am
It depends how Labour does in the elections next month. There are certainly some that could do the job. I think Clive Lewis has plenty enough experience to take on the leadership and Zara Sultana, with boundless energy to inspire people, would make a great deputy. Much of the media would obviously turn on them, but I think so soon after Corbyn it would become more obvious to more people that it's largely spin and smears. They'd have good, popular policies and would work to build support across communities and in workplaces from the ground up. The sooner that starts again the better. The difficulty would more likely be getting the initial votes from the rest of the Labour MPs. I don't know if there are enough left wingers in the PLP. Many of them considered it a mistake to let Corbyn on the ballot and they're unlikely to repeat it. Without the party having open selection of MPs I don't see it heading back towards being socialist or democratic any time soon, and if anyone is put forwards to replace Starmer, they'd likely just be another centre-right establishment figure.