One of the first things people will have to understand is that though he will have won, Corbyn will not have been elected Labour leader. Labour will not have a leader. Corbyn will not command the support of his shadow cabinet, or his MPs. Nor does he want it. His appeal – and he’s been entirely open about this – will be to the activists and members who have elected him. They will decide policy – not him. They will dictate his political direction – not him. A small hard-left clique will establish an iron circle around him to “interpret” the activists’ will. But Labour will not have a leader. It will have a cipher.