Who the hell is Owen Smith?
Well, indeed, that’s the point. Many of the opponents of Jeremy Corbyn inside the Parliamentary Labour Party have long records of supporting anti-working-class Labour governments. These people are unelectable as Labour leader. Smith only became an MP in 2010 and so has not had time to get his hands conspicuously filthy on behalf of Brown or Blair. What we do know about Smith, however, is he is another pushy middle-class man on the make. From 2005-8 Smith made £80k per year working in a senior post for the drugs giant Pfizer. According to the Mail, “Mr Smith was head of government relations for...