If you want to understand Jeremy Corbyn and why he makes the political choices he does, you have to start with this: he doesn’t care about the United Kingdom all that much. I don’t mean that he hates Britain or holds the country he wants to govern in contempt. What I mean is that his passion is the world elsewhere and his political priority is the so-called global south: the less economically developed nations that have, in his view, done the worst out of the prevailing economic, social and military consensus.

On domestic matters, he defers to those he trusts and has worked with for years: his shadow home secretary and loyal ally Diane Abbott and his friend and shadow chancellor John McDonnell are particularly