Newspaper headlines: Corbyn victory, fish fingers, rugby giant and Bevan drama By Nigel Pankhurst

BBC News Published duration 13 September 2015

As the dust settles on the Labour leadership contest, the papers reflect on a significant if not unexpected result.

Minutes after his coronation was confirmed, a triumphant Jeremy Corbyn told the Observer that he had won a "huge mandate".

The paper states: "On a day of extraordinary drama, which saw the one-time rank outsider secure more than three times the number of votes obtained by second-placed [Andy] Burnham, Corbyn - arguably the most left wing leader in Labour history - insisted he would now work to unite his MPs behind him in the Commons.

"His emphatic victory - Corbyn won almost 50% of the votes among full party members - puts pressure on senior figures who had been reluctant to serve with him to change their minds."

But, the Observer continues, his election prompted a flurry of senior resignations, including those of shadow chancellor Chris Leslie, shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt, shadow communities secretary Emma Reynolds and shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves.

image copyright Reuters image caption Jeremy Corbyn romped to victory in the Labour leadership contest

The Independent on Sunday brings some colour from the scene: "There had been a dozen red roses in the £20 bouquet Felicity Hamilton bought from Marks and Spencer an hour earlier, but as she stood at the front of the crowd of several hundred people waiting for newly crowned leader Jeremy Corbyn to emerge from the QEII centre in Westminster, she found herself handing some of her flowers to fellow supporters, who waved them aloft in common celebration.

"Ms Hamilton was keeping hold of a few of the roses - fittingly, perhaps, they were slightly scruffy around the edges but deep red - to hand to the man himself, should he ever emerge.

"They waited for nearly two hours, this ever-swelling crowd of loyal supporters, chanting 'Jeremy, Jeremy' and waving banners that read 'I voted for a new kind of politics'."

'Political earthquake'

"In the most stunning leadership upset in post-war history, the former 200-1 outsider crushed his rivals on the first ballot, winning nearly 60% of the vote, more than three times as much as Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper, with Liz Kendall a distant fourth," it says.

It says: "Mr Burnham and Mrs Cooper, who served in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, were humiliated and left with just 19% and 17% of the vote respectively."

image copyright Getty Images image caption Mr Corbyn beat Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall

After initially scratching barely enough support to enter the race as the rank outsider, says the Sunday Mirror , Mr Corbyn won the leadership race by a landslide.

The Sunday People likens him to The Terminator, saying the result hammered the last nail into the coffin of New Labour.

'Leap to the left'

Plenty of comment, of course, including from one of the architects of New Labour, Lord Mandelson, in the Sunday Times

He says it is not Mr Corbyn's values or personality that are the problem it is his views and policies.

He writes: "They are far to the left of Labour's historic mainstream, basically a rehash of the early 1980s leftism that allowed Margaret Thatcher to secure a series of electoral victories.

"It was a political programme that wouldn't work then and most certainly will not work three or more decades later."

"When we and others say that democracies need strong and effective opposition, this is not just observing the niceties.

"Without a strong opposition, governments become complacent, arrogant, even corrupt. They stop listening and spend more time fighting among themselves."

image caption Lord Mandelson says Mr Corbyn's views are a "rehash of the 1980s"

"If Mr Corbyn's speech sounded well rehearsed then it might be because it is a speech he has been giving ever since he entered Parliament in 1983," it says.

"It is a speech full of old left-wing ideas, nursed like grudges."

It comments: "Corbynism has proved a political earthquake that has shaken politics more than most would have thought imaginable.

"But it has yet to prove it can reshape the terrain to benefit the disadvantaged as well as offering progressive, popular and practical solutions to the problems facing Britain."

"It may be that the doubters are right: that a re-run of Labour's long suicide note of 1983 is not the way to win the hearts of middle England," it says.

"But it may be that Labour under Mr Corbyn's unexpected leadership could throw up apparently outlandish ideas that test assumptions about whether policies are thinkable and unthinkable.

"It is not as if our political system is so perfect that it could not do with shaking up."

'No smell, no fuss'

Pages of reports, analysis and comment on Labour's leadership election not surprisingly means other news is somewhat thin on the ground.

"From a rudimentary breaded fish stick marketed with the rather unglamorous promise of 'no smell, no fuss', to a haute cuisine version consumed at the most exclusive restaurants in Mayfair, the humble fish finger has come a long way," she writes.

The first fish fingers were made by Birds Eye in 1955 at its factory in Great Yarmouth, we learn.

"There was a time when the fish finger was modest fare and the only variable was whether it was smothered in ketchup or brown sauce," she continues.

"Not any more. Today's finger is still a student staple, but now you can get ones with wholemeal coating, crispy batter, added omega 3, and a choice of fish."

image copyright Getty Images image caption England face "man mountain" Nemani Nadolo in the Rugby World Cup

Fijian back Nemani Nadolo stands 6ft 5in tall and weighs in at more than 20 stone. He is pretty quick, too, said to run the 100m just a second slower than Usain Bolt.

His daily diet is apparently one chicken or half a kilo of steak, five poached eggs, five mackerels, two plates of salad, vegetables and potatoes, one bowl of soup and one bowl of fruit salad.

Ominously, with echoes of Jonah Lomu in 1995, he tells chief reporter Robert Mendick: "My first instinct is to run over the man. I have to use my size. That has been my advantage over the past few years."

image copyright Getty Images image caption A television drama is being made about health service founder Aneurin Bevan

Final word to the Sunday Times , which says what better time for a BBC drama about the romance between Labour icon Aneurin Bevan, father of the NHS, and his wife Jennie Lee.

The paper imagines the script.

Jennie: "Aneurin, what are you doing in the garden?"

Nye: "I'm drawing up plans for a new health service that will be free at the point of treatment."

Jennie: "Then why are you stripped to the waist?"

Nye: "This is the BBC. All romantic heroes these day have to be stripped to the waist. That's also why I'm using a scythe to construct my national health service."

Jennie: "Man, have you taken leave of your senses."

Nye: "That's nothing. Just you wait until the bit where I emerge from then pond wearing nothing but combination underwear and a pair of hobnail boots."