In 2016 Labour, led by themost left-wing leader that the party had ever seen, burst into new life. TheWestminster beltway of political insiders, pollsters, commentators andnewspaper proprietors were completely taken by surprise and left with egg all overtheir faces. Few took the trouble to ask how or why Labour, almost aloneamongst parties on the left in Europe, had re-grouped, revived and successfullyturned its back, so decisively on Tony Blair and Bill Clinton's 'third way'.