Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn is a British politician who is the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. He has been the Member of Parliamentfor Islington North since 1983 and was elected Labour Leader in 2015. Ideologically, he identifies as a democratic socialist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 May 1949
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I will continue - as Labour Leader - to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.
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The point in the report is that you shouldn't say to somebody just because they're Jewish, you must have an opinion on Israel. Any more than you say to anyone who is a Muslim you must have an opinion on any vile action that's been taken by misquoting the good name of Islam. I just ask people to be respectful and inclusive in their debate.
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Of course we as Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. But as today's Report recommends, can we please leave [Adolf] Hitler and Nazi metaphors alone (especially in the context of Israel). Why? Because the Shoah is still in people's family experience.
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Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.
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I'm interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would want us to have a set of objectives which does include public ownership of some necessary things such as rail.
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I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.
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I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.
I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.
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I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt.
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Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.
I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.
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I want everyone to put their views forward, every union branch, every party branch, so we develop organically the strengths we all have, the imagination we all have.
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Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.