The Labour leader closed his party’s Liverpool conference with a speech outlining a raft of Opposition priorities, including a new National Living Wage aimed at reducing in-work poverty.
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But his insistence that controlling immigration should not be a priority in a post-Brexit deal with the European Union put Mr Corbyn at odds with many Labour MPs and activists. “That single measure alone would allow them to build an extra 12,000 council homes a year”, he said. The old politics is broken.
And he promised to raise taxes on the rich in order to bring back Education Maintenance Allowance and maintenance grants for students.
“That now, as others have said, we’ve got a “grown up” in charge”.
“We all agree on that, so I ask each and every one of you, accept the decision of the members, end the trench warfare and work together to take on the Tories”.
‘I know some people say campaigns and protests don’t change things, but the Hillsborough families have shown just how wrong that is’.
“Once again, it’s only with Labour in power that we can make a real difference, with world-leading new approaches”.
One woman told Socialist Worker, “It was wonderful”. I’ve waited 40 years to hear a Labour leader talk about socialism like that-and it was worth the wait.
Recalling that the party won all four recent by-elections under his leadership, besides mayoral elections in London, Bristol, Salford and Liverpool, Corbyn said he would learn the lessons of the second leadership campaign.
Meanwhile, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the Calais migrant camp was a scar on the conscience of both the French and United Kingdom governments.
He said: “A Labour government will not offer false promises on immigration as the Tories have done”.
Under Mr Corbyn’s proposals, levels of funding would vary dependent on the specific needs of local authorities and the fund would come from, in part, money raised from visa applications for entering the United Kingdom as well as a new levy on citizen application fees.
And he said Labour needed to develop new solutions to issues such as the increase in automation in the workplace. “To win support for the election of a Labour government”.
And he also responded to the accusation that he was more interested in building a movement than entering government.
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In July, she was one of 240 local authority councillors, including Coun Lesley Hamilton, who represents Hartlepool’s Victoria Ward, who signed an open letter on Labour List giving continued backing to the leader.
