How did he do it? A man of the people, comforting the Grenfell survivors; standing up at PMQs for that workhorse and kingpin of transport modes - the bus; railing against all our many wars in foreign lands down the decades.
He skillfully steered a middle course over the Brexit shambles realising that his party was riven down the middle with pro and anti Europeans. The Brexit General Election was his undoing because he tried to be democratic, principled and wanting to give his party and the nation a final say in what should be done. But the irrational, impatient electorate had had enough of all the shilly shallying and simply wanted out after three and a half years of indecision. Should he simply have seen the mood of the electorate for out and simply advised out and campaigned for out? Would that have meant a much closer fight between Johnson and him last December?
He wanted massive spending to end austerity and to put things right for the poor, the disadvantaged and the vulnerable. Ironically, that is now happening with Covid-19 but not to build that fairer, more equal and sustainable society that should be everyone's top priority.
For me, he was the best Labour leader I have seen and probably the best since Keir Hardie.
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