Letter from Britain: The Corbyn Earthquake

Abstract

‘She’s a dead woman walking and theonly question is how long she’s going to beon death row’. This was George Osborne’s verdict speaking on the BBC, three days afterthe UK General Election. The ‘she’ being Theresa May, the Tory Prime Minister, ‘in office but not in power’ as the Sunday Telegraph put it, whilst Jeremy Corbyn, relaxed and confident, made clear that he was ready to govern and would present an alternative Queen’s speech