Jeremy Corbyn

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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who has served as the leader of the Labour Party and leader of the Opposition since 2015.

Since 1983, Corbyn has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North.

Corbyn, adolescent socialist who was born in Chippenham and raised in both Wiltshire and Shropshire, joined Labour as a youth.

He became a trade union representative in London after moving to London.

He was elected to Haringey Council in 1974 and later became the Secretary of Hornsey Constituency Labour Party before being elected as the MP for Islington North in 1983.

His activism has included participation in Anti-Fascist Action, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, as well as calling for a united Ireland.

He regularly voted against the Labour whip, including "New Labour" governments under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as a backbench MP.

He served as a vocal critic of the Iraq war from 2011 to 2015.

In 2013 and 2017, he received the Gandhi International Peace Award, as well as the Seán MacBride Peace Prize. Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015.

The party's membership increased dramatically during his leadership campaign and afterwards.

He pushed the party to the left, calling for renationalization of public services and the railways, a less interventionist military strategy, and reversals of austerity cuts to health and public services.

Although he was critical of the European Union, he favoured continued participation in the 2016 referendum.

He was voted in a second leadership race after Labour MPs attempted to exclude him in 2016.

Labour gained a majority of the vote in the 2017 general election, with Labour's 9.6% vote swing being the largest since 1945.

Labour gained 30 seats and a hung parliament, but the Labour Party stayed in Opposition.

Corbyn supported holding a referendum on any Brexit withdrawal deal in 2019 with a personal appeal of neutrality.

Labour's vote share in the 2019 general election fell 22%, but it was higher than in 2015 and 2010, and it gained 202 seats, the fewest since 1935.

Corbyn said that he would not lead Labour into the forthcoming election.

Corbyn's media coverage has been generally critical.

He has condemned antisemitism, but he has been chastised for some of his past work and his opposition to antisemitism within Labour Party.

Early life

Corbyn was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, on May 26th, 1949, and he lived until the age of seven in the nearby village of Kington St Michael. He is the youngest of Naomi Loveday's four sons (née Josling, 1915-1977), a maths instructor, and David Benjamin Corbyn (1915–1986), an electrical engineer and specialist in power rectifiers. Piers Corbyn, a physicist, meteorologist, and weather forecaster, is his brother. His parents, who were members of the Labour Party and peace campaigners who met in the 1930s at a committee meeting in favour of the Spanish Republic at Conway Hall during the Spanish Civil War.

When Corbyn was seven years old, the family moved to Pave Lane in Shropshire, where his father purchased Yew Tree Manor, a 17th-century farmhouse that was once part of the Duke of Sutherland's Lilleshall estate. Corbyn attended Castle House School, a private preparatory school near Newport, Shropshire, before, at the age of 11, he became a day student at the Adams Grammar School in the town.

Corbyn, a student at the University of Wrekin, was involved in the local Labour Party, as well as the League Against Cruel Sport. He joined the Labour Party at the age 16 and secured two A-Levels, the lowest-possible passing grade before leaving school at 18. Corbyn joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in 1966 while attending school and later became one of the organization's three vice-chairs and later vice president. He also campaigned against the Vietnam War at this time.

Corbyn spent a short time as a reporter for a local newspaper, the Newport and Market Drayton Advertiser, after school. He spent two years as a youth worker and geography tutor in Jamaica at the age of 19. He toured Latin America in 1969 and 1970, visiting Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile. Though in Brazil, he attended a student protest against the Brazilian military government in So Paulo. He attended a May Day parade in Santiago, Chile, where the Popular Unity party, the song tradition, the artistic heritage, and the intellectual tradition had all developed.

Personal life

Corbyn lives in London's Finsbury Park neighborhood. He has married three times and divorced twice, and he has three children with his second wife. Jane Chapman, a fellow Labour Councillor for Haringey and now a professor at the University of Lincoln, married him in 1974. In 1979, the two couples divorced. Corbyn had a brief acquaintance with Labour MP Diane Abbott in the late 1970s.

Corbyn married Claudia Bracchitta, the granddaughter of Rigo Bracchitta, in 1987, with whom he has three sons. He missed his youngest son's birth while lecturing the National Union of Public Employees members at the same hospital. Following a difference of opinion regarding sending their son to a grammar school (Corbyn opposes selective education), they divorced in 1999 after two years of separation, but Corbyn said in June 2015 that he continues to "get along really well" with her. His son then attended Queen Elizabeth's School, which had been his wife's first choice. Sebastian, their second son, served on his leadership campaign and was later promoted as John McDonnell's Chief of Staff.

Andrew, Corbyn's second oldest brother, died of a brain haemorrhage while in Papua New Guinea in 2001. Corbyn carried the body from Papua New Guinea to Australia, where his brother's widow and children lived.

Corbyn went to Mexico in 2012 to marry Laura lvarez, the Mexican woman who runs a fair trade coffee import company, which has sparked some controversy. She began seeing Corbyn shortly after his release from Bracchitta and moved to London to help her sister Marcela after her uncle was kidnapped to America by her uncle's estranged uncle. They contacted fellow Labour MP Tony Benn for assistance, who welcomed them to Corbyn, who worked with the police on their behalf and attended fundraising until the girl was found in 2003. lvarez then returned to Mexico, with the couple retaining a long-distance friendship until she migrated to London in 2011. Corbyn has been described as "not very good at house work, but he is also a good politician," Lvarez said. They have a cat named El Gato ("the Cat") in Spanish, but Corbyn has also owned Mango, who was described by The Observer in 1984 as his "only constant companion" at the time.

Corbyn praised John Smith, the former Labour leader who he most admired, in his description of him as a "good, nice, inclusive leader." He also said he and Michael Foot were "very close and very good friends."

Corbyn refused to disclose his religious convictions and called them a "private thing" when interviewed by The Huffington Post in December 2015, though he denied that he was an atheist. He has said he is "skeptic" of having a god in his life. His environmental issues were likened to a sort of "spiritualism." Corbyn has referred to himself as frugal, telling Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, "I don't spend a lot of money, I live a very normal life, I ride a bicycle, and I don't have a car." Since being raised on a pig farm in Jamaica when he was 19 years old, he has been a vegetarian, and has expressed interest in becoming a vegetarian in April 2018. Although he has been portrayed in the media as teetotal, he told the Daily Mirror that he does drink alcohol but not "very little."

Corbyn is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cycling. He loves reading and writing and speaks fluent Spanish. He supports Arsenal FC, which is based in his constituency, and has signed parliamentary motions lauding the achievements of the team's men's and women's teams. Jens Lehmann, Ian Wright, and Dennis Bergkamp as his favorite Arsenal players, and he has lobbied for the club to pay its employees a living wage. Corbyn is a "drain spotter" who has shot decorative drain and manhole covers around the country.

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Early career and political activities

He served as a member of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, returning to the United Kingdom in 1971. Corbyn started a course in Trade Union Studies at North London Polytechnic, but after a string of challenges with his tutors over the curriculum, he left after a year without a degree. He served as a trade union organizer for the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, where Tony Benn met with his union and "encouraged..." to establish a blueprint for staff's ownership of British Leyland; the efforts did not go further after Benn was moved to a different Department.

He was elected to Haringey Council in the 24th year of 1974. He was re-elected as the Harringay councillor after boundary changes in 1978, and remained so until 1983. Corbyn, a delegate from Hornsey to the Labour Party Conference in 1978, successfully moved a bill calling for dentists to be employed by the NHS rather than as private contractors. He also spoke in another debate, referring to a bill calling for greater funding for law and order as "more appropriate to the National Front than to the Labour Party."

Corbyn became the local Labour Party's agent and organiser in 1979 and was in charge of the campaign in Hornsey.

He became involved with the London Labour Briefing, where he was a contributor. "Briefing's founder," was characterized by The Times in 1981 as "Briefing's chief," according to a 1982 article that lists Corbyn as "Briefing's general secretary figure," which states that he joined the editorial board as General Secretary in 1979. Corbyn was "a member of the editorial board," according to Michael Crick of Militant's 2016 edition, as does Lansley, Goss and Wolmar's 1989 book The Rise and Fall of the Municipal Left. These reports were inaccurate in 2017, Corbyn told Sophy Ridge, "I read the newspaper." I wrote for the journal. I was not a member of the editorial board. "I didn't agree with it."

In 1981, Tony Benn's flopful deputy leadership bid aspirated. Despite Labour's National Executive's having declared him ineffective, Tariq Ali's willingness to join the party was keen to welcome him, "so far as we are worried, he's a member of the party and he'll be issued with a card." Ali was issued a party card in May 1982, when Corbyn was chairman of the Constituency Labour Party; in November, the local party voted by 17 to 14 on Ali's membership "up to and including the point of disbandement of the group."

"If expulsions are in order for Militant, they should also apply to us," Corbyn wrote in the 1982 edition of Briefing. He served as the "provisional convener" of "Defeat the Witch-Hunt Campaign" in the same year, and was based at Corbyn's then address. Corbyn was "deemed to be a subpoena" by the Metropolitan Police Department for two decades, before the early 2000s, when he was "deemed as a subpoena." "The Security Services maintained files on several peace and Labour campaigners at the time, including anti-Apartheid activists and labor unionists," Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said.

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