Steve Howell was Labour’s deputy director of strategy and communication in 2017 and is the author of Game Changer: Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics. His forthcoming book is Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony.

10.23.2025

• Steve Howell

How the Labour Right Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn

A new book by the journalist Paul Holden exposes the lengths that reactionaries within the Labour Party, many of whom now serve in the current government, went to sabotage the electoral prospects of Jeremy Corbyn.