Sir Keir Starmer had spent the night reading all 599 pages of the European Union withdrawal agreement. He was briefing his leader on its contents when Jeremy Corbyn interrupted to ask: “What is this backstop?”
Although it is styled as a grand project, the story that unfolds in Left Out — the narrative of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party from 2017 to 2019 — is the rather forlorn tale of a man out of his depth. Our guides, Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire, do the Westminster beat for The Sunday Times and The Times respectively. They have produced a book that is not about the quick rumbling of a political volcano but the slow rumbling of a political idiot.
There are some genuine insights in this
