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Allegra Stratton
Newsnight Political Editor

Lots of talk of defections in my patch - yesterday the suggestion George Osborne thought he could bring over Blairites, this morning Tim Farron revealing he's received texts from Labour figures in anguish that Jeremy Corbyn is their new leader.

Speaking to folk on the Tory side of things, and some Labour people in the frame, I think we're getting ahead of ourselves. But there is something going on.

From Tories, my understanding is that the project they are currently working on is how to bring over "establishment figures on the centre left" to run institutions, inquiries, commissions, maybe even museums. I gather they wouldn't expect them to become Tories, and instead would actively want them to be loud and proud Labourites... All helps create the sense the Tories are now the big tent camped firmly on the boggy unpredictable marshland centre ground of British politics. This is in the mould of John Hutton and Alan Milburn - who took on commissions on pensions and social mobility respectively.

But the Tories running this process tell me they "do not expect the defections of any sitting MPs". I've spoken to one of the Labour MPs always rumoured to be on the verge of crossing the floor, and when I put this judgment to them they said "I think that's probably right".

Why? Well, firstly these Tories tell me they can see that Labour MPs need time to figure out how long Corbyn lasts. But secondly, and most importantly, they are aware that being Labour is a central part of these people's identity - Blairite or not. That they will not turn their backs on it easily. If ever. The agony of a by-election for their party, friends and family would be unthinkable for many. There is a reason they are not Tories, a philosophical choice they have made 20 / 30 years ago.

Labour folks regard the rumours as put about by their opponents to further destabilise their already ricketty party. What I don’t rule out is that perhaps, over the next five years, a current Labour MP would decide Corbyn isn't for them, decide to stand down and then, a short while later pop up doing a job for the Tories. But that is a long way off.

Then, what about the Lib Dems? This would be a little less of a journey for Labour folk but still I doubt it. Forgive my cynicism but I suspect Tim Farron's decision to reveal he has been approached by Labour folk is probably partially an attempt to frame the narrative ahead of his party conference which kicks off this weekend. It might have been dominated by the idea that Jeremy Corbyn makes things more difficult for the Lib Dems after choosing a left wing leader like Farron over a centrist like Norman Lamb.  

Now, that's not to say we won't wake up in a year and learn of a defection. Or even sooner than that. But what's going on right now is, in the words of one Tory minister who has had a chat with a Labour MP about defecting, just "banter".

Marc Williams
Newsnight Election Producer

The first PMQs of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was certainly different. Many people have found his more sober approach rather refreshing, particularly contrasted with the "Punch and Judy" style which usually predominates and which, as Speaker Bercow never tires of reminding us, the general public hate.

It's worth remarking, however, that the initial exchanges between leaders are often relatively civil, with at least a cordial "I congratulate the Rt Hon Gentleman on his election as leader and so on and so on." Sometimes it ascends to even headier heights of camaraderie. Here's the first exchange between Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher upon her election as Tory leader in 1975.

The Prime Minister

With your indulgence, Mr. Speaker, may I say that I know that I speak on behalf of all my right hon. and hon. Friends when I congratulate the right hon. Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher) on her outstanding success in being elected leader of her party. We wish her happiness in and enjoyment of a life which she knows she can expect to be exciting but sometimes arduous and difficult. From a study of the right hon. Lady's speeches, I have formed the impression that there may well be a deep gulf between her and me in our respective political philosophies, but, having worked closely with her three immediate predecessors, as I have, I know that political disagreement between us need not mar the work that we have to do together in Parliament, and I look forward, as I hope she will, to the meetings behind your Chair, Mr. Speaker, and to the informality and, to judge from my experience with her predecessors, the intimacy, which such meetings afford.

Mrs. Thatcher

I know that it is important not to speak too often from this Dispatch Box, Mr. Speaker, but may I respond to the Prime Minister's kindness? I know that we shall have hard things to say to one another across the Dispatch Boxes, but I hope that we shall be able to keep the mutual respect of keen antagonists which I think is in the best interests of parliamentary democracy.

But it should also be noted that it is usually the case that familiarity breeds contempt between political leaders as they face each other week after week and the political pressure on at least one of them builds.

It will be fascinating to tune into PMQs after the Conference Recess to see how long Mr Corbyn can sustain his approach and how long Mr Cameron can resist letting slip the Parliamentary Dogs of War. 

If Mr Cameron is the first one to blink, then that will be a huge strategic victory for Mr Corbyn, showing that his demotic, calm approach has unnerved the Prime Minister. If Mr Corbyn is forced to engage in the traditional polemical style, then he will have failed in one of his central ambitions: to elevate the tone of political debate.

If he does fail, he would hardly be the first leader to do so. Cast your minds back to December 2005. In his acceptance speech to be Tory leader, David Cameron said:

"And we need to change, and we will change, the way we behave. I'm fed up with the Punch and Judy politics of Westminster, the name calling, backbiting, point scoring, finger pointing."

And what about this, from new Prime Minister Gordon Brown in June 2008:

"And this need for change cannot be met by the old politics so I will reach out beyond narrow party interest; I will build a government that uses all the talents; I will invite men and women of goodwill to contribute their energies in a new spirit of public service to make our nation what it can be."

Or Ed Miliband's first speech as Labour leader in September 2010:

"I stand here today ready to lead: a new generation now leading Labour. Be in no doubt.The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics."

Most leaders start off with good intentions. The strain of the job and the need to draw political blood leads many of them to dust off their Mr Punch puppets before too long. 

Ed Brown
Newsnight producer

There are two advantages for an opposition leader to be gained at PMQs. Firstly, to communicate with the electorate, who will see what you’ve said on the bulletins. Secondly, to show your MPs that you’re up to the job.

Traditionally, the Labour and Conservative politicians scream at each other over the despatch box, each hoping to ridicule the other. The evidence is that this doesn’t score very well with the public. But ultimately, from week to week, most political leaders derive their support from the support of their MPs. If as a leader I choose not to scream and make sarcastic jokes, my opponent has a clear field to ridicule me – and my authority is lessened with my MPs as I’m seen as having been beaten. As such, neither leader can back down. By screaming, they make sure they themselves are not ridiculed.

So what changed today? Most obviously, Corbyn took his questions from the public. 

This meant two things. It’s a bit harder for a politician to ridicule a question from a member of the public. But secondly, what’s almost unique about Corbyn is that he derives almost none of his authority from support in the Parliamentary Party. He doesn’t need to – and may not even be able to – please these people. His authority comes from his enormous support amongst the party’s supporters and members who voted for him overwhelmingly. This is how he may be able to keep his own party’s MPs in line.

As such, for Corbyn, the game is rather different. By asking for questions from the public – realistically, mostly the supporters and members that voted for him – he continues to make that group of people feel valued and involved. From his perspective, this makes absolute sense. So long as the people that put him in power stay happy, his authority over his party remains.  

For Corbyn, reaching over the heads of generally sceptical MPs to the activists and supporters that deliver leaflets and knock on doors for them isn’t just something that he no doubt believes in doing in principle: it’s arguably an absolute necessity for him to remain in power.

Ed Brown
Newsnight producer

A (non-political) friend of mine recognised Tristram Hunt in his local newsagents yesterday morning. He caught Hunt's eye and questioningly held up the front page of one of the papers which were plastered with images of Corbyn. The former shadow education secretary took the paper from my friend's grasp, turned to the page with his own face on it, pointed, and simply said "out".

An illustration, perhaps, of the mountain Corbyn has to climb with his own party. Hunt isn't the only one that is "out". Liz Kendall is out, Chuka Umunna is out. Many MPs simply flat out refused to serve in a Corbyn cabinet.

Admittedly, Hunt is exactly the sort of MP you'd expect to be unhappy with Corbyn. 

But it's not just the Blairites that don't feel part of the project. I spoke to one of the newly anointed shadow cabinet members today who made it clear that "I am not a spokesperson for the Jeremy Corbyn camp. [The] BBC have formed the view I'm a Corbyn camp spokesperson" - and they made it clear that they were not.

A revealing turn of phrase for two reasons. Firstly, the extraordinary sense of them and us between a newly-appointed cabinet minister and their leader. Secondly, if a shadow cabinet member doesn't speak for the leadership, then who does? 

Perhaps this marks a new, less authoritarian, more devolved leadership style from Corbyn. Corbyn has a camp - and so does each cabinet minister. Maybe this is a good thing. 

But when the going gets tough, someone needs to be about to stand up for him in the media...and to the rest of the party. And one wonders whether Corbyn will be left wishing that there were rather more people that felt like they were "in".

Marc Williams
Newsnight Election Producer

Here are word clouds generated for three leader acceptance speeches: Tony Blair in 1994, David Cameron in 2005 and Jeremy Corbyn from the weekend.

The size of the word reflects the number of mentions.

TONY BLAIR

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DAVID CAMERON 

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JEREMY CORBYN

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Spot anything? The same three things stand out from the Blair and Cameron clouds: "Labour/Conservative", "Country" and "Change". 

Not one phrase (except, perhaps, "society") really stands from the Corbyn cloud. Buried within it you have things like "unions", "movement" and "decent", but you have to have a good stare to discern any pattern.

This perhaps reflects the extemporaneous delivery from Mr Corbyn compared to the polished image-making performance of Blair and Cameron. Others might argue that those two had a clear trajectory which linked changing their party to changing the country and that any similar path was missing from the Corbyn speech. 

Marc Williams
Newsnight Election Producer

Jeremy Corbyn's speech on Saturday was, it seemed, off the cuff and so no copy of it in its entirety has been released for public consumption, not at least that I have seen. 

So, in the interests of posterity, I have transcribed it. 

JEREMY CORBYN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH 12/09/15

Can I start by thanking everyone who took part in this election, this huge democratic exercise of more than half a million people all across this country?

It showed our party and our movement passionate, democratic, diverse, united and absolutely determined in our quest for a decent and better society that is possible for all.

And there are many people I want to thank before I say a few more words if I may. First of all, for Ian McNichol, the General Secretary of the Party, and all of the party staff for their incredible hard work during this campaign and the general election campaign and all the other campaigns that we do and will continue to do. Iain, thank you very much and please make sure all our staff are aware of the appreciation we have for all of them. Thank you.

I want also to pay a huge thanks and tribute to Harriet Harman, who has been our acting leader and our Deputy Leader and before that our acting leader. I’ve known Harriet for a very long time and what I would say of her is her absolute commitment and passion for decency, equality and the rights of women in our society is something we will honour her for, thank her for and we have legislation that’s been brought about by her determination. Harriet, thank you so much for all you’ve done and the way in which you’ve led the party since the tragedy of the election result in May.

I want also to thank and congratulate Tom Watson for his election as Deputy Leader of the Party. Tom is passionate about communication, passionate about holding the state and unaccountable people who don’t wish to be accountable to account. Tom’s your man to do that.

I want also to thank Ed Miliband for all the work he did as leader of our party. I had a very long conversation with Ed a couple of days ago and I thanked him for his work as leader of the party. I thanked him for his work as environment secretary and someone who’s passionate at defending the world’s environment against the way it’s being destroyed at the present time. But I also thanked him for the way in which he stood up to the abuse he received by much of our media and the dignity he showed when his late father, the great Ralph Miliband was so brutally abused by some of our media. So, Ed, thank you for all of that.

I want to thank the fellow leadership candidates. We’ve been, we’re discussing the number, whether it’s 29, 35 or 39 hustings we’ve been to together since this election started.  We’ll discuss that later and exchange diaries. But it’s been a fascinating experience for all of us. And I want to thank them for the way the debates were conducted, the way we were able to put forward political debate and political differences and still come out of it at the end with a group hug. We’re going to reform ourselves as an ABBA tribute band and continue this work in the future.

Andy Burnham was our Health Secretary and Andy’s passion and determination for a National Health Service as a human right, free at the point of us is something that comes over every time Andy speaks. And his passion for comprehensive education to ensure all children have a reasonable, fair and decent start in life.

I want to say thank you to Yvette Cooper for all the work she’s done in Government and in the Party but, in particular, over the past few weeks helping to shape and turn round public opinion to show sympathy, humanity towards refugees and the way they’re treated.

And one of my first acts as the leader of the party will be to go to the demonstration this afternoon to show support for the way that refugees should be treated and must be treated in this country.

I want to thank Liz Kendall for her friendship during this campaign. For the way in which we’ve managed to have some moderately different opinions on a number of issues. But we’ve managed to maintain a very good friendship and Liz is somebody that I admire because she absolutely stands up for what she believes in, whether it’s easy, simple or popular or uneasy not simple or unpopular. So Liz, thank you very much. Those late night train rides will never be the same again.

So thank you to my fellow candidates and to the thousands of party members that have attended the hustings events all over the country. And it’s quite amazing that every one of them was completely full, standing room only and many other members and supporters who unable to get along to them. That is a tribute to our party, all the candidates both for Deputy Leader and Leader and the way in which our members want passionately to engage in debate and be able to influence party policy and make our party more inclusive, more democratic and their membership better listened to in the future.

I want to thank my own campaign team. They’ve been absolutely amazing. We came together after we got on the ballot paper, I appreciate with difficulty. And I want to say thank you to the 36 members of parliament, well 35 plus me – I nominated myself- for nominating me for this position. I know some of them had possibly some reluctance to do so, it is reported. But they did so in a spirit of inclusion and a spirit of democracy and I thank them for that and I look forward to working with all of them after this election campaign because we’ve got great work to do in the party.

And so our campaign began with very little and we gained support, we gained volunteers and I thank the unions that nominated me: UNITE, UNISON, the TSSA, ASLEF, the Communications Workers Union,  the Prison Officers’ Association, the Bakers’ Union, the Socialist Education Association, the Socialist Health Association and the support received from the RMT Union and FBU and all the other unions that took part in this campaign. We are party organically linked together between the unions and the party membership and all the affiliated organisations. That is where we get our strength from.

And as a former union organiser in NUPI, now part of UNISON, I fully understand the importance of unions at the workplace, defending people’s rights, standing up for their members and that’s why I don’t appreciate what this Government is trying to do to shackle unions in the Trade Union Bill they’re bringing forward on Monday.

Our campaign attracted the support of 16,000 volunteers, all over the country. Organisers in each part of the country, that organised all the events and meetings that we have held. And in total we’ve done 99 of those events. Today is the century. And we are here at the end of this very long campaign. And it’s been quite incredible, the numbers of people that have come forward to join our party.

But before I go onto that, I wanted to say a big thank you, they all know who they are, to my many personal friends, many people, everyone in Islington North Labour Party for electing me to Parliament 8 times until May this year, their fantastic comradeship, friendship and support. It’s been quite amazing and I absolutely value their advice. Sometimes its advice you don’t always want to receive but that’s the best advice you get and I want to say thank you to all of them in Islington North.

I also say a huge thank you to all of my widest family, all of them, because they’ve been through the most appalling levels of abuse from some of our media over the past three months. It’s been intrusive, it’s been abusive, it’s been simply wrong. And I say to journalists: attack public political figures, make criticism of them. That’s ok, that is what politics is about. But please, don’t attack people who didn’t ask to be put in the limelight, who merely want to get on with their lives. Leave them alone. Leave them alone in all circumstances.

During this amazing three months, our party has changed. We’ve grown enormously. We’ve grown enormously because of the hopes of so many ordinary people for a different Britain, a better Britain, a more equal Britain, a more decent Britain. They’re fed up with the inequality, the injustice, the unnecessary poverty; all of those issues have brought people in, in a spirit of hope and optimism. So I say to the new members of the party or those who have joined as registered supporters or affiliated supporters, welcome, welcome to our party, welcome to our movement. And I say to those returning to the party who were in it before and felt disillusioned and went away: welcome back, welcome back to your party, welcome home.

And as the media and maybe many of us simply didn’t understand the views of many young people within our society: they had been written off as a non-political generation, who are simply not interested hence the relatively low turnout and level of registration of young people in the last General Election. They weren’t. They’re a very political generation that were turned off by the way in which politics was being conducted and not attracted or interested in it. We have to and must change that.

So, the fight back now of our party gathers speed and gathers pace. I’m delighted that Kezia Dugdale is here today, our leader in Scotland. We’re all going to be campaigning in Scotland for Labour in Scotland with those great traditions, those great Labour traditions in Scotland.

I thank Carwyn Jones for his leadership and the way in which we’re going to fight in Wales and I congratulate them on ending the internal market in the health service in Wales: something we want to do in the rest of Britain. And I say congratulations to Marvin Rees, selected yesterday as our mayoral candidate in Bristol. We’re all going to be down there, Marvin, helping you and supporting you to win Bristol.

And to my friend Sadiq Khan, who’s been elected as our mayoral candidate for London: Sadiq, we’re going to be campaigning together. And we’re going to be campaigning together particularly on the crucial issue of housing in London. I am fed up with the social cleansing of London by this Tory government and its policies. We need a Labour mayor in London who can ensure we do house everyone in London, we do end the sky high rents, we do end the insecurity of those living in the private rental sector. We need a Labour mayor to bring that about in this wonderful, great city of London and Sadiq’s the man to do it.

This week, the Tories will show what they’re really made of. On Monday they have the Trade Union Bill to undermine even the ILO conventions and shackle democratic unions and destroy another element of democracy in our society. We have to oppose that.

They’re also pushing the Welfare Reform Bill, which will bring misery and poverty to so many of the poorest in our society. I want us as a movement to be strong, proud and able to stand up and say “We want to live in a society where we don’t pass by on the other side of those people rejected by an unfair welfare system.” Instead we reach out to end the scourge of homelessness and desperation that so many people face in our society. We’re strong enough and big enough and able to do that. That is what we’re about.

There are many, many issues we face and many people face desperation in other parts of the world and I think it’s quite incredible the way the mood in Europe has changed over the past few weeks of understanding that people fleeing from wars, they are the victims of wars, they are the generational victims of wars, the inter-generational victims of war, end up in desperation, end up in terrible places, end up trying to get a place of safety, end up trying to exercise their refugee rights. They are human beings just like you, just like me. Let’s deal with the refugee crisis with humanity, with support, with help, with compassion to try to help people trying to get to a place of safety, trying to help people who are stuck in refugee camps but recognise going to war creates a legacy of bitterness and problems.

Let us be a force for change in the world, a force for humanity in the world, a force for peace in the world and a force that recognises we cannot go on like this, with grotesque levels of global inequality, grotesque threats to our environment all around the world without the rich and powerful governments stepping up to the plate to make sure our world becomes safer and better. And those people don’t end up in poverty, in refugee camps wasting their lives away when they could be contributing so much to the good of all of us on this planet. We are one world, let that message go out today from this conference centre in London.

I conclude by this: the Tories have used the economic crisis of 2008 to impose a terrible burden on the poorest people in this country. Those who have seen their wages frozen or cut. Those who can’t afford to even sustain themselves properly. Those that rely on food banks to get by. It’s not right, it’s not necessary and it’s got to change. We need an economic strategy that improves people’s lives, that expands our economy, that reaches out to care for everybody. You can’t do that if, at the same time, you do nothing about grotesque levels of inequality in our society. We need to develop an economic policy that deals with those issues.

And so, our party is about justice, is about democracy, it is about the great traditions we walk on. Those that founded our party and our movement, those that stood up for human rights and justice: the rights for women to vote, the right for others to vote. We stand here today because of their work. But we go forward now as a movement and as a party. Bigger than we’ve ever been for a long, long time. Stronger than we’ve ever been for a long, long time. More determined than we’ve been for a long, long time to show to everyone that the objectives of our party are intact, our passion is intact, our demand for humanity is intact.

And we as a party are going to reach out to everyone in this country to take us on that journey together so no one is left on the side, everyone has a decent chance in life and a decent place within our society. That’s what Labour was brought about to achieve. That is what we’re going to achieve.

This election campaign is, as we see here, about shaping our future. Our party is going to, I hope, become more inclusive, more involved, more democratic and we’re going to shape the future of everyone in this country in a way which, I feel, will be remembered as something which is good for everyone, that brings about the justice that we all crave. And this is what brought us into this wonderful party and this wonderful movement ourselves.

I say thank you to everyone for all their support, friendship and comradeship during this election process. And I say thank you in advance to us all working together to achieve great victories, not just electorally for Labour but emotionally for the whole of our society to show that we don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable. Things can, and they will, change. Thank you very much.

Allegra Stratton
Newsnight Political Editor

Hilary Benn, reappointed shadow foreign secretary, this morning said that Labour would campaign to stay in Europe in the forthcoming referendum, despite Jeremy Corbyn being a well known critic of Europe and, in his resignation letter, Chuka Umunna suggesting Corbyn was sticking to Euroscepticism.

Speaking on the Today programme, Benn said: "Jeremy has made it very clear that we are going to stay to fight together for a better Europe. We will be campaigning to remain in the European Union."

My understanding is that this is actually not certain. Instead Jeremy Corbyn is due to go in to see the In and Out camp this week.

The new Labour leader has told Labour MPs active in that campaign that his decision on whether or not to campaign for Out in the forthcoming referendum will be determined at a special conference of Labour members to take place by the end of the year or early next year.

He is said to believe that Labour members will probably decide to campaign to stay in the European Union, but that he is not sure.

Over the weekend Corbyn came under pressure after Chuka Umunna left the front bench partly citing difference over the EU referendum campaign with his new leader.

I've just spoken to Frank Field, one of the MPs who nominated Corbyn in the first place, and he's clear Corbyn can't credibly campaign for Britain to stay in Europe.

He said: "Given Jeremy's previous position on Europe, I don't see how he can possibly campaign for an In vote".

Thanks for joining us here. We're wrapping up our live coverage of the new Labour leadership. You can follow along for more updates on the BBC Live page.

Before we go - and in case you missed it - here's the report we ran on the eve of Jeremy Corbyn's victory.

Stephen Smith and Ruaridh Arrow go in search of the real Corbyn. Turns out he's got a pretty unusual approach to speech writing. Enjoy. 

We're back on Monday 22:30 on BBC Two. 

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The new deputy leader of the Labour Party is Tom Watson. Here's how the votes for deputy leader were cast.  

A quick recap if you're just joining us.

Jeremy Corbyn has won the Labour leadership by a huge margin.

Here's how the votes stacked up in the end.

And here are the figures on the turnout

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This was Jeremy Corbyn right before the announcement he'd been elected the new Labour Party leader.

The news was made public at 11:30, but the candidates themselves had been told about an hour before - and sworn to secrecy. Spot any telltale signs?

Marc Williams
Newsnight Election Producer

  Following the leadership announcement, Andy Burnham was braced for his day to get even worse:  

  Well, with a few minutes to go, the scoreline is Everton 3, Chelsea 1. Small consolation, perhaps, but at least he can watch Match of the Day with a happy heart this evening. He will have to struggle through the news bulletins first, though. 

He seems a bit more chipper already: 

Marc Williams
Newsnight Election Producer

Our colleagues at BBC Newsbeat have reported that Jeremy Corbyn might share out his duties at Prime Minister's Questions.

An interesting bit of background to this comes from a speech by Speaker John Bercow in July 2010:

"An informal understanding also emerged that the Leader of the Opposition would be called on both days if he wished and have the right to ask a supplementary. Hence the proportion of all questions asked by party leaders rose from 10 per cent in 1967-1968 to 25% in 1987-1988 to 33.4% by 2007-2008. This was not the result of any deliberate action of the House. Indeed, backbenchers would make their irritation known if party leaders were excessive. Margaret Thatcher, when Leader of the Opposition, averaged only 1.6 interventions a session. This was partly because if she was due to speak in a parliamentary debate on a Tuesday or Thursday she frequently would not participate in PMQs at all but also because her team came to the view that if she had not drawn parliamentary blood in the first two questions then it would be counterproductive to strain the patience of the House with a third one. This self-denying ordinance or simple tactical retreat has since gone out of fashion."

What Mr Bercow illustrates is that it is a relatively recent phenomenon for Leaders of the Opposition to intrude largely at PMQs. Mr Corbyn might be about to turn the clock back.   

Alex Campbell
Newsnight producer

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Once the euphoria of his movement subsides, the work begins.

In the coming days, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will address the TUC conference, assemble and announce a shadow cabinet and address a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party – a meeting he previously made a habit of avoiding in his 32 years as an MP.

Then comes Prime Minister’s Questions and a clash between two leaders who could not be more divided in their politics, their style or their rhetoric.

Cameron’s scathing and often personal quips at the Despatch Box are probably emblematic of the “personality politics” Corbyn has railed against.

But facing inevitable, pithy attacks that he can’t even unite his own party, that his beliefs are a threat to economic survival and even to national security, can the “straight talking, honest politics” of the Corbyn campaign win over the wider public in the 40-second pantomime exchanges that make the News at 10?

Questioning on the highly sensitive subject of the refugee crisis might be his strategy to avoid being too comfortably swatted on his first outing.

One thing that it seems Jeremy Corbyn will not be undertaking in his first few days at the helm is a glut of media appearances.

Rob Burley, the editor of the Andrew Marr programme, tweeted this afternoon that Corbyn has already pulled out of a planned appearance on the show tomorrow morning.

Given frequent complaints from the Corbyn camp about misreporting throughout the campaign – juxtaposed with the emphatic nature of his victory – could it be that the Leader of the Opposition’s policy on the mass media is simply that he doesn’t need them?

There’s no denying that Corbyn’s victory is one of the greatest upsets in modern political history. But after the earthquake comes the tidying up, and there’s an awful lot of it to do. 

In case you want to refresh your mind on what Jeremy Corbyn plans to do as Labour leader, here's the interview he did with Newsnight's Emily Maitlis about a month ago. 

And you can watch a selection of interviews with - and about - Jeremy Corbyn here, external.