In his first policy speech as leader, Mr. Corbyn labeled the governing center-right Conservatives as “poverty deniers” and that a more equal Britain wasn’t a far-fetched dream. “His shadow cabinet team has new and old faces and it was interesting just how decisively both he and his deputy, Tom Watson, won”.
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Along with David Cameron, he will attend a service to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
IT DIDN’T take long for Labour’s new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to land himself in hot water.
Labour lawmakers congratulated Corbyn, with some praising him for deflating his Conservative opponents, who often try to score points from the opposition with well-timed barbs.
Kicking off with questions on unaffordable housing, mental health and welfare, Corbyn’s low-key performance did little to ruffle Cameron, who gave detailed answers in an unusually muted manner.
Speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton, Mr Corbyn also pledged to oppose Government plans for £12bn in welfare cuts, which he branded “social cleansing”.
“And above all, they wanted their voice heard in parliament”.
The Northern Irish Parliament is now undergoing a political crisis sparked by an IRA-linked murder, and Mr Lewis offered to temporarily remain in his role, but Mr Corbyn rejected the idea. But more than 10 former shadow ministers have refused to serve under him.
The Labour leader was criticized by the former head of the Navy, Lord West, who said the armed forces would be offended by Corbyn’s decision not to sing.
When asked whether he loved the United Kingdom , he said: “Of course I love this country”.
“But we won’t get Britain building unless we keep his economy going”. One of the things that voters often say they don’t like about politicians is the way they appear to abandon their principles in exchange for power.
Writing in the Times, Chancellor George Osborne said that Mr McDonnell’s appointment broke decades of economic consensus.
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Corbyn received more than 40,000 replies to his request for questions for Prime Minister’s Questions, the weekly opportunity for the leader of the opposition to hold the premier to account in parliament, but that many have said had become a “circus”. Bringing these groups into existence, and getting them to relate to a single united organisation of the Labour left which is independent of the leadership will not be easy, but it is these networks that will form the building blocks of a new politics.
