Everything about Jeremy Corbyn totally explained
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born
26 May 1949 in
Wiltshire) is a
British Labour Party politician and
Member of Parliament for
Islington North.
He has been in the
House of Commons since he won his seat at the
1983 general election. An old boy of
Adams' Grammar School in
Shropshire, he's a
left-wing member of the Labour Party and is in the
Socialist Campaign Group. He has a column in
The Morning Star. A long-time supporter of the
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, he's one of its three Vice-Chairs. Before his election to parliament he was an elected councillor in the
London Borough of Haringey (
1974-
1983).
He was fiercely opposed to the
Iraq War and has spoken at many anti-war rallies in the UK and abroad. He is an elected member of the
Stop the War Coalition steering committee as well as being Vice-Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. On
31 October,
2006, Mr Corbyn was one of 12 Labour MPs to back
Plaid Cymru and the
Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the war.
Corbyn is a prominent
Amnesty International member. He campaigned for the trial of the late former
Chilean dictator,
General Pinochet.
He is also a committed supporter of a
United Ireland. Corbyn took on significant criticism when he and
Ken Livingstone invited
Sinn Féin leader
Gerry Adams to speak in London in 1984.
Jeremy Corbyn announced in December 2006 that he was considering running for the Deputy Leadership, however there has been no subsequent statement from him on this matter.
He is one of the signatories to
Tony Banks' "Pigeon Bombs" Early Day Motion and Michael Meacher's
Climate Change EDM
, in stark opposition to his brother,
weather forecaster Piers Corbyn's view on climate change.
According to an article Jeremy Corbyn along with
John McDonnell have signed a petition Calling on UK to lift ban on
LTTE - which is registered as a terrorist group by the European Union
(External Link).
Corbyn is an MP sponsored by the
Unison trade union, and is a committed
anti-fascist having spoken at the
Unite Against Fascism and Barking and Dagenham TUC anti
British National Party rally in December 2001
(External Link) and also speaking at the organisations annual conference in 2007 attacking the record of the media and calling for
no platform to the BNP.
(External Link)
Corbyn won the 2001
Beard of the Year award, after having described his beard as "a form of dissent" against
New Labour.
He resides in
Tufnell Park and has three sons.
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