When Praful Nargund stood against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North at the July general election, I heard several confident predictions about why the moderate and business-savvy candidate favoured by Keir Starmer’s ruthlessly disciplined machine would promptly see off Jeremy Corbyn – the Old Testament prophet of doomful state socialism in Islington North.
The head-butt of Labour centrist and remains of the old Left, re-invigorated by protests over Gaza, did not go to plan – Nargund is not in the Commons and Corbyn is.
