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There was a time when Jeremy Corbyn was ugly to make great speeches, but those days are gone. He delivered a good one at the Labor conference last week.
In fact, Corbyn and his team have become good at politics in general. They do everything they've used to despise, for example by transmitting information to the media and deciding on a key message to address to the most important personalities of the party.
There are signs that the Conservatives are worried, and so they should be.
Corbyn not only learned to tell his story, but he also has a good story to tell.
Society, and especially the economy, does not work as it is supposed to do, according to Corbyn.
Some people become very rich while the rest of us struggle. Public services are sometimes ugly, but private companies make huge profits. And you are told that you should aspire to own your own home – but that does not seem possible.
Unions have radical plans to address these issues, including requiring companies to sell 10% of their share capital to a fund controlled by their employees.
At the same time, Corbyn told the conference that the movement's ideas are "the new common sense".
It sounds like a contradiction. But maybe Corbyn thinks voters are so anxious to change that Labor's plans do not seem radical after all.
Some Conservative MPs think he's right. Tory from behind, Robert Halfon, said his party had to show that he also had answers to the issues raised by the unions at the annual conference in Birmingham.
But no one should be surprised if the Conservatives agree that our current system is down. Theresa May said it as early as 2016.
In presenting her candidacy for the Conservative leadership, she attacked "an irrational, unhealthy and growing gap between what these companies pay their workers and what they pay to their bosses".
She warned, "If you are in a public school, you will be less likely to reach the best professions than if you have done private studies."
And she said, "If you are young, you will find that it is harder than ever to own your own home."
Much could have come directly from Corbyn's mouth.
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The difference, however, is that Corbyn seems to have a plan, whatever you think, to deal with these injustices.
Theresa May does not do it. His divided part speaks of Brexit and nothing else. If they want to beat Corbyn, the Conservatives must be inspired by the 2016 Prime Minister's speech – and draw some lessons from Labor on how to make policy work effectively.
