The recent British general election saw the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn achieve the largest swing of any major party since 1945. One of the results of that swing was thirty new members of parliament at Westminster, the first time the party had increased their number of seats since 1997.

Two of those elected were Alex Sobel and Dan Carden. Sobel, a long-time party activist and councilor, defeated Liberal Democrat Greg Mulholland to become the MP for Leeds North West. Carden, a thirty-year-old trade union activist, was elected in Liverpool Walton with 85.7 percent of the vote.

Here they speak to Jacobin contributor Marcus Barnett about their paths to politics, experience of the election campaign, and the prospects of a Corbyn-led government.