“…First, ideology: how left-wing Labour's policies should be; and second, democracy and populism: Corbynism was either anti-democratic and authoritarian populist or 'left-populist' and democratising. With regards to ideology, Corbyn's strategists and supporters never seemed to doubt that Corbynism's surprise appeal stemmed from its left-wing politics (Martell, 2018;Byrne, 2019;Airas, 2018;Massey, 2015). However, media pundits and scholars insisted that if Labour were to be elected to government they would either have to return to the centre and appeal to the median voter or somehow overturn these central tenets of majoritarian electoral theory (Blair, 2015;Crines, 2015, 7;Bale, 2016a, 7;2016b, 19;Honeyman, 2018, 15).…”