Just to give you an idea of how things have changed, here's an example of some headlines.

April 19: Jeremy Corbyn 'likely to stay on' even if Labour suffers crushing election defeat

April 24: Is it too late to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader before the general election?

May 7: Stephen Hawking says Jeremy Corbyn ‘a disaster for Labour’ and should step down

And these AREN'T the right-wing tabloids that hate Labour.

The more recent headlines look like this.

May 26: The signs are there – is Jeremy Corbyn going to win?

May 31: Will Jeremy Corbyn become Prime Minister after the 2017 general election?

June 1: General election poll: Jeremy Corbyn surges ahead of Theresa May in London

To say the turnaround was unlikely is an understatement.

This was not just epic in size, but was epic in speed too.

So what happened?

Two things happened.

Number One: The Tories ran a candidate so bland and uninspiring that she can only described as a robotic Hillary Clinton.



Call it the quantity theory of personality. The less warmth and spontaneity the Supreme Leader reveals she has, the more engaging Jeremy Corbyn becomes...

All seemed to be there for one thing and one thing only – to catch a glimpse of Jeremy. The anti-personality personality. Corbyn has always claimed that his political career has never been about him, but when you’re up against a black hole in the form of the Maybot, then it’s hard not to be a personality. Just being able to stand up, look vaguely human and talk in sentences that mean something is all it takes.

May is an absolutely pathetic candidate.

Looking back at it now, it makes you wonder how Theresa May was crushing Corbyn in the polls in the first place. The blame for that lies in Britain's biased news media.



Since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party almost two years ago, the best efforts of the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph have been focused on painting him as a threat – a threat to the UK’s economy, its security and its cultural homogeneity. He was the big bad terrorist-sympathising wolf at the door (if also somehow a bungling incompetent), and only the iron resolve of Theresa May could keep him out. That message was played so consistently that it seemingly managed to penetrate the minds of a UK public that most of the time pays little attention to politics.

The thing is that during the campaign, a sizeable chunk of the population starts paying a bit more attention to the party leaders on TV. And on our screens in recent weeks Corbyn has looked more like a slightly bedraggled, if much-loved, family pooch than an apex predator.

This couldn’t have been clearer on Tuesday evening, when Corbyn turned up on The One Show’s sofa. As with a similar appearance by May and her husband, Philip, the softball questions barely touched on policy or politics. But where the Prime Minister and her husband looked like they were trying desperately to appear normal, Corbyn looked like he actually was, and he seemed to be enjoying himself.

It's as if Corbyn was expected to wear a suicide vest and eat live puppies on stage.

Once the campaign started and people began paying attention, and Corbyn's strategy of relying on TV appearances rather than print media, the public realized that they've been lied to. Once you stop trusting sources that's been lying, anything is possible.

Then came yesterday's debate.

Tories had a choice to make.

They could a) send May in there and risk having her turn off voters even more, or b) refuse to attend the debates and look weak and scared.

Which did they chose?

They took Door Number Three: they sent a surrogate instead, thus looking weak and scared while at the same time creating an inviting target for all the other candidates.



Theresa May’s absence left so many open flanks for her opponents to attack – and Corbyn was left free to move the fame on to his own vision for the country

I don't know how they could have made this a bigger disaster.

Then to follow this up, Corbyn managed to get the only American politician that is popular in Europe to campaign for him - Bernie.

How will Bernie be received? Check out this reception today.