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
Jeremy Corbyn quotes about
change debate joined labour social thirst vehicle
We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.
force good society trade unions
Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.
breaking developing information ownership sources
We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.
urban
To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.
jobs numbers people
People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.
sleep land cities
What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?
running agency databases
Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.
cutting people benefits
Many people in my constituency come to see me absolutely distraught at the prospect of losing their private rented flat because of the imposition of a housing benefit cut. Social cleansing is going on in all of central London because of the benefit cap. That is a disgraceful situation.
islamic israel self
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.
rights evil atrocities
Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.
want ministers prime
Of course I want to be [prime minister].
abuse way thrown
I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.
party abuse injustice
Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.
joining-in people political
I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.