To move on, Labour must learn lessons from the left’s failure worldwide Owen Jones
over 5 years in The guardian
The party’s defeat was a debacle, but was part of a global trend. Now leadership hopefuls must say how they would buck it
British exceptionalism – the myth that Britain is uniquely different to its European neighbours – afflicts everything from our understanding of our place in the world to our domestic political situation. The rise of Scottish nationalism, the rightwing populist surge, Brexit, Corbynism: all are seen through the confines of the UK’s borders. And so it goes for Labour’s catastrophic electoral rout. But it does not detract from the party’s own failure to understand the broader context: across the continent and even the world, social democracy and the so-called political centre are in crisis.
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