In a move to wrong-foot critics who portray him as being anti-business, he will use his first conference leader’s speech to announce the policy.
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A patriot acting in the defence of decency, fair play and other supposedly British values is how UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will portray himself in his keynote speech to the party’s congress on Tuesday afternoon.
“So if the Prime Minister and the Scottish Secretary are serious about powers for Scotland, I say this to them today: Accept Labour’s changes”.
He also accused the Conservatives of working for wealthy donors, saying: ‘That’s why this pre-paid government came into being, to protect the few’.
Corbyn’s campaign for the leadership had set out his commitments on housing which will be further developed by the party’s housing spokesman John Healey.
He said government-funded maternity and paternity pay for self- employed workers should be increased.
In his two weeks since taking charge, he has been criticised for failing to present his policies clearly and for changing tack on issues such as Britain’s membership of the European Union, on which a referendum is due by the end of 2017.
There was little in the way of wild swings between viewers strongly agreeing or disagreeing with what Mr Corbyn had to say. “How dare these people talk about security for families and people in Britain?”
“Let us build a kinder politics, a more caring society, together”, he said.
Mr Corbyn said: “We will learn the lessons of the past and we will make Labour the great fighting force you expect us to be”.
Corbyn also stressed that he “loved” the United Kingdom and shared the story of his meeting of Armed Forces personnel who travelled to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola.
Speaking on Monday at Labour’s annual conference, Sioux Blair-Jordan, of the Colchester Labour Party, said she was sick of “being demonised” and blamed for the country’s problems, adding people who are chronically sick or disabled should be “seen as human beings”.
Echoing the conference slogan “Straight talking, honest politics”, Mr Corbyn will say he offers: “Real debate, not message discipline”.
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To a standing ovation, he told delegates that British people “do not have to take what they are given” by the Conservatives, whose economic record he blasted as “unbalanced, unsustainable and dangerous”.
