UPDATED: 11:53 a.m. BST, Sept. 12
Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the UK's Labour Party on Saturday, beating out more mainstream rivals and marking a turn left for the party, which has been moving toward the center for decades.
Corbyn won with a solid lead in the first round of voting, with 59.5% of the 422,664 votes cast. The 66-year-old with socialist ideas, who has been the MP for London's Islington North since 1983, beat Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall
He faces the challenge of uniting a deeply divided Labour Party. Most of the MPs in the party have misgivings about him, and a few of the most experienced members of the party have threatened to quit the shadow cabinet if he is elected or if he doesn't change some of the policies they see as radical. Read more...
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