Corbyn win shakes up UK Labour as Blair's shadow fades
Anti-austerity leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn's emphatic win to become leader of Britain's opposition Labour could divide the party's MPs but boost its grassroots power, commentators said Sunday.
(AFP) Anti-austerity leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn's emphatic win to become leader of Britain's opposition Labour could divide the party's MPs but boost its grassroots power, commentators said Sunday.
The veteran socialist's victory with 59.5 percent of the vote also marks a break with the legacy of controversial former prime minister Tony Blair and his centrist "New Labour" movement of the 1990s.
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