Could Corbyn Have Won It for Labour?

After the election, it was accepted that Starmer's disciplined leadership yielded a victory that would have been impossible if Corbyn were still leader, but how true is this?

In the aftermath of Starmer’s landslide victory in 2024, the narrative that Labour’s victory would have been inconceivable if Corbyn were still leader became accepted in public discourse, but to what extent is this observation grounded in reality? Labour won a larger vote share in 2017 than in 2024 (41.0% versus 34.2% across Great Britain) and won fewer total votes in 2024 than they did in their crushing 2019 performance (9,708,716 in 2024 versus 10,269,051 in 2019: a 560,335 decrease).