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'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
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I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.
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I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in.
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Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.
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Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.
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Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be addressed.
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A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
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You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.
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There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.
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In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.
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I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.
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You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.
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If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.
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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.