Jeremy Corbyn is here to stay and the Labour Party is never going to look the same again

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour opponents are resigned to him being elected leader of their party on 12 September. No one will know for sure until the votes are counted, and the Corbyn camp plays down expectations of a knockout --winning more than 50 per cent of the first preference votes of the 550,000 members, registered supporters and trade unionists taking part. “We think it will go to penalties,” said one Corbynista –a reference to the preferential voting system in which the bottom candidate drops out and the second preferences of their supporters are reallocated until one runner wins more than 50 per cent of the vote.