https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Jeremy_...
The Tories won 317 seats (318 including the Speaker), while Labour won 262 seats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_el...
Reality is Labour lost the election despite going up against an incredibly weak opposition and basically refusing to discuss or take a position on Brexit, which was an irresponsible form of electioneering. When faced with a competent opposition they took the same approach and were wiped out. That's on Corbyn.
Looks to me like Corbyn never showed any party loyalty. He sewed the wind.
Corbyn was trying to make Labour into something better, just as Bernie Sanders was trying to do the same with the Democratic Party in the US. This is always mischaracterized by tribalist partisans and sycophants as "party disloyalty."
Cut class sizes to 30 or under for 5, 6 and 7 year-olds Nursery places for all four year-olds Attack low standards in schools Access to computer technology Lifelong learning through a new University for Industry More spending on education as the cost of unemployment falls
Can you demonstrate where the opposition had those policies?
Just weeks before polling day, Tony Blair said:
“Labour has no plans to introduce tuition fees
for higher education.”
Labour’s Robin Cook added: “We are quite clear
that tuition costs must be met by the state.”
just two months after becoming prime minister,
Blair went ahead and introduced tuition fees.[0]
True, in opposition the Tories were actually opposed to Labour's tuition fees, condemning them as an attack on the poor and even promising to scrap them.
They know a good, juicy Tory policy when they see it though, and under David Cameron they reversed their pretend opposition, kept tuition fees and increased them.
So it does a serious disservice to Blair to say he merely copied Tory policies, when his Labour Party so out-Toried the Tories, they were reduced to copying him.
[0] https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-studen...