Forget Copeland – what people want is a bigger, brighter, better Jeremy | John Crace

Just because voters would rather die from hospital closures than back Labour, there was no cause for concern, Corbyn musedWe happy fewer. Just hours after Labour had lost the safe seat of Copeland in a byelection, Jeremy Corbyn was in London to speak to the party of European Socialists at the Institute of Electrical Engineers. After the faintest ripple of applause had greeted his entrance, the Labour leader took the stage. Yes, things were catastrophic. But at least they weren’t serious. S