Old Newscast: How Jeremy Corbyn Won The Labour Leadership 2015 (Part 1)

老新闻播报:2015年杰里米·科尔宾如何赢得工党领导权(第一部分)

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2025-12-29

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Today’s Old Newscast is travelling all the way back to 2015: it’s the morning after the general election, and Ed Miliband resigns as leader of the Labour party. Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn entered the leadership contest with many doubting he would win the necessary 35 nominations from Labour MPs to make it on to the ballot. Three months later, on the 12th September 2015, he was elected as leader with almost 60% of the vote. Adam is joined by two journalists who followed each twist and turn of the 2015 Labour leadership contest, Jane Merrick and Nick Watt, to revisit how the Corbyn campaign won. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscord Get in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480. New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Shiler Mahmoudi. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • Jeremy Corbyn has won more than 50% of the votes cast in this round.

  • and are therefore delighted to declare Jeremy Corbyn elected as leader of the Labour Party.

  • The 12th of September 2015, the day Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party.

  • At the start of the contest, he was a 200 to 1 outsider, according to some bookies,

  • but ended up with almost 60% of the vote of Labour members and registered supporters.

  • and thereby transiting his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.

  • We are going to look back at how Jeremy Corbyn went from rank outsider to winning that contest in the next two episodes.

  • of old newscast.

  • And for those of you who don't know what old newscast is,

  • this is where we look back at some moments which have been turning points in recent history and talk to people who either covered it as journalists or were involved in the events in some way.

  • We've done plenty of episodes before,

  • ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the expenses scandal in the British Parliament.

  • So, to set the scene for this...

  • set of old newscasts.

  • Labour has just suffered a huge defeat in the 2015 general election.

  • Ed Miliband resigned the morning after, and Labour was at a genuine crossroads,

  • agonising over which direction the party should go in.

  • So how did Jeremy Corbyn get on the ballot paper in the first place?

  • How was he able to defy all expectations?