I saw for myself just how hostile many voters were to Jeremy Corbyn

The Observer's political editor found that, no matter how able the candidates, they couldn't sell the party leadership on the doorstep• Latest politics news - live updates A few days before voters went to the polls on Thursday, the Labour MP Neil Coyle was out campaigning in his Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency. A man answered the door and told Coyle bluntly not to bother leaving a leaflet because he regarded his leader as a terrorist sympathiser and wanted nothing to do with him, or ...