Populism and Nationalism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Discourse

This chapter discusses the discursive strategies employed by Jeremy Corbyn in his speeches, official statements and newspaper articles from 2016-17. These strategies may be interpreted as left-wing and populist or both, but at the same time they also engage with (and fit into) a nationalist agenda. Through the analysis of the two keywords of the Labour leader’s discourse, i.e. “people” and “British”, and following the criteria of the Discourse-Historical Approach, the chapter suggests that Corbyn’s discourse realises an ideological intersection of nationalism and populism.