the man who became famous for describing both the Socialists and the Popular Party (PP) conservatives as “a caste” of corrupt and self-serving officials who all needed to be ejected from politics, now claims that it is the Socialist Party, not Podemos, that has changed.

Iglesias mentioned recent statements by Socialist senator Emiliano García Page, who said Podemos’s program was “acceptable.” Until recently, the PSOE had been casting Podemos as a group of “populists” with “unrealistic” ideas.