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
party thinking years
Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.
jobs thinking government
I think the issue will come up after the election of the new Tory leader. They may well decide to call an election. What the British people need now is stability. Stability to retain their jobs, stability to protect those working conditions, and we need a plan from this government now on how they're going to approach the negotiations for leaving the European Union before they invoke Article 50.
thinking voters cry
Labour voters are crying out for effective leadership.I'm afraid I don't think Jeremy [Corbyn]can provide it.
east observer quite referendum time
I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.
associated stop war
I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.
parliament since time
I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.
dissent
I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.
brutally cathedral corner destroyed huge national palace size
The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores.
believed contact fein maintained northern quite situation solution
Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.
abolish bother britain civil involved morally naval shame spanish stop time trade war
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.
peace
I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.
bases gone legal powers
Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.
company denied money paid penny withdrawn
Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.
democratic intrinsic owned society
Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.