“I will be at many events and I will take part fully in those events”.
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“I think it is important that he just wears a red poppy”, he said. The issue surely is that we had a memorial for the Battle of Britain and I was there.
“Many [people] told me that they thought PMQs was too theatrical, that parliament was out of touch and they wanted things to be done differently, but above all they wanted their voice heard in parliament”.
On Tuesday, Mr Corbyn came under fire for choosing not to sing the national anthem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at St Paul Cathedral.
JEREMY Corbyn, the new Labour leader, today prepares to face his first Prime Minister’s Questions session in the House of Commons – will you be tuning in?
However, a spokesman for the Labour leader’s said that he had “stood in respectful silence”.
Mr Corbyn also accused David Cameron of being a “poverty denier” at the conference in Brighton.
The veteran left-wingers performance will be welcomed by the Corbyn camp, following a rocky start to his leadership.
The SNP’s Alex Salmond questioned whether it was an effective way of causing damage on Mr Cameron, who wasn’t challenged on his answers.
Known as “PMQs” – Prime Minister’s Questions – the weekly verbal jousts have become combative in the age of rolling 24-hour news, with witty put-downs that appeal to television often drowning out questions about government policy or direction.
The questions set by Corbyn for the prime minister were straightforward: Why wouldn’t he spend more on a range of worthy causes?
Usually, opposing party leaders and politicians ask questions on behalf of their party, and in turn the Prime Minister answers with usually heckled and ridicule filled responses.
Mr Corbyn, who had faced criticism for failing to promote women to any of the senior portfolios, said that the majority of posts in his shadow cabinet had been been filled by females.
He said Corbyn’s views on nuclear disarmament and his opposition to conducting airstrikes against Daesh targets in Syria, along with his promises of higher spending and additional taxes, meant that Labour had “completely vacated the intellectual playing field”.
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Highlighting the role played by United Kingdom service personnel in tackling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Mr Cameron said: “For those who wonder sometimes what are the uses of British troops, I would say get a map out and have a look at Sierra Leone”.
