The landslide victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election looks set to transform the political discourse in our large neighbour island. There is an otherworldly quality to the north London MP, who first served as a councillor way back in 1974, before being elected as MP for Islington North in 1982.

Margaret Thatcher has not been fondly remembered in this country.

UNIONS hailed a strike by up to two million public sector workers as “historic” yesterday as they angrily rejected claims by the British prime minister that the biggest walkout in a generation had been a “damp squib”.

The biggest strike in Britain for over 30 years got under way today with schools, hospitals, courts, transport and government hit by a walkout involving up to two million workers.