Jeremy Corbyn has been comfortably re-elected leader of the British Labour Party, easily bearing off a challenge by Owen Smith. He won 313,209 votes or 61.8 per cent, slightly more than the 60 per cent when he was first elected.
Corbyn was challenged just a year after he was elected to the party's helm when a majority of his parliamentary group were critical of his lack of enthusiasm in the campaign to keep Britain in the EU. Most of the Labour shadow cabinet subsequently resigned.
But the rebellion against the veteran rebel misfired from the off as it merely threw Mr Corbyn back into his comfort zone of mass rallies with an almost evangelical feel where he preached to those he had converted to his brand of new old Labour.
An ugly and tense showdown at the party's governing national executive committee decided Mr Corbyn would not need nominations to get on the ballot paper, but that tens of thousands of new members would be banned from ever seeing that ballot paper as they were disenfranchised from the election.
The move allowed the leader to once again portray himself as the underdog raging at the Labour machine as the party went to war with itself while the Tories got on with governing in the aftermath of a Brexit crisis which could well have sunk an administration facing an opposition that had its guns trained on Downing Street rather than each other.
The one major incident that did threaten to cloud the campaign was the "Traingate" furore when Mr Corbyn was filmed sitting on the floor of a carriage because there were no suitable seats on the "ram-packed" service.
An indignant Virgin Trains then released CCTV footage showing Mr Corbyn walking past an array of empty seats in a move which seemed to catch his campaign team off guard as they mounted a clumsy defence of his actions before a clearly grumpy Labour leader criticised reporters for daring to ask him about the incident before he insisted he had wanted two seats together so he could talk to his wife.
The incident threatened to undermine two key aspects of Mr Corbyn's appeal to his supporters - that he was not like the other robot politicians and did not stoop to stunt politics.
The fact challenger Owen Smith appeared to compare the Labour leader to a "lunatic" the same day led to one of the most memorable questions of the campaign, when a reporter asked a very tetchy Mr Corbyn: "Are you a lunatic and, on trains, are you a liar?"
Other colourful language came from shadow chancellor, and Mr Corbyn's campaign manager, John McDonnell, who was dismissive about his opponents in no uncertain terms, stating: "They have been plotting and conniving. The only good thing about it is that, as plotters, they're f***ing useless."
Mr McDonnell apologised, but the crude assessment of the anti-Corbyn opposition looks likely to be borne out by the result.
But the trouble for rebel MPs is that with a renewed mandate, Mr Corbyn will expect them to let him call the tune this time.
In an acceptance speech today, Mr Corbyn said some regrettable things may have been said at the heat of the moment, but Labour would now wipe the slate clean and go forward in tackling the Conservatives. He said nothing about the shadow cabinet.