Ragnorak: Jeremy Corbyn has become the leader of the UK Labour party, following an extraordinary leadership campaign in which he went from being a 200/1 outsider to a landslide victory.
Following his confirmation as leader at a conference on Saturday morning, he headed off to join a rally in Westminster in support of refugees seeking asylum, where he gave a speech true to his form as a campaigner for human rights and equality.
A left-wing Labour MP for 32 years, he energised what otherwise seemed certain to be a very dull campaign for the leadership by displaying what many regarded as principled and authentic qualities lacking in other politicians. To others including former Labour prime minister Tony Blair, he was very much the man they didn't want to see win, with his ideas seen by them as quixotic and unrealistic.
But won he has and resoundingly so, though he now faces a tough challenge to carry this energy and enthusiasm through to the next general election in 2020 if he is to become prime minister, especially with much healing still to be done in his own party. His policies which include quantitive easing, scrapping Trident, opposing military intervention and renationalising the railways could now soon become party policies, giving the electorate two very different choices in 4 and half years. What does his triumph mean to you?