I pre-ordered this book, "Left Out - The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn" by Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire, from Amazon, and it should pop up on my Kindle reader next week.
In the meantime, the extracts from it published in today's
Sunday Times are grimly, and I do mean, grimly, compelling.
https://archive.is/CXanW
Team Corbyn learnt that Labour would lose the 2019 general election three months before a voter had gone to the polls. On September 22, the Sunday morning of the party’s annual conference in Brighton, John McDonnell walked with his wife, Cynthia, to a meeting room in the bowels of the Metropole hotel. What the shadow chancellor was about to find out would prove difficult to stomach.
In the last days of August, Niall Sookoo, Labour’s director of elections, and Tim Waters, its head of data, had commissioned a poll from YouGov that turned the optimism of Jeremy Corbyn’s inner circle on its head. According to a poll of 20,000 voters, it would end the campaign with just 138 MPs — its worst result since 1918.