(03.05.2016)

Labour‘s deputy leader and once known as an arch-plotter (he was one of Gordon Brown‘s closest allies in his attempts to force his frenemy Tony Blair out of office), Watson is now Labour‘s Deputy Leader.

He has the rare asset of a „mandate“ (a word never used so often in British public life as it was following Corbyn‘s shock victory) almost as large as Corbyn‘s. In the same September 2015 election that installed Corbyn, Watson became his deputy with just over 50 percent support in the third round of voting.