JEREMY Corbyn will today use the Brexit campaign’s main slogan by insisting only Labour will give people the chance to "take back real control" as he slams the “fake anti-elitism of rich white men” like Nigel Farage and Donald Trump.
Speaking at his party’s National Policy Forum at Loughborough in the Midlands, the Labour leader will tell members that this is now the “most important moment in politics for a generation” with political upheaval becoming the norm.
"People know there can be no more business as usual but the question is: what will replace it?" he will ask.
“Voting for the status quo is not attractive to people because they know the status quo is failing them. The fake anti-elitism of rich white men like Nigel Farage and Donald Trump is farcical at one level but in reality it’s no joke.
“So,” he will say, “it is down to Labour to restore hope and give people the chance to take back real control. The Tories under Theresa May are taking Britain backwards and failing to meet people’s needs and aspirations.
“Under my leadership, Labour is setting a real alternative for Britain. Labour will be ready whenever the general election is called.”
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Mr Corbyn will claim that Labour’s alternative will meet the “scale of the change we need to see” such as full employment, a homes’ guarantee, security at work, a strong public NHS and social care, a national education service for all, action on climate change, public ownership, a cut in inequality of income and wealth, action to secure an equal society and peace and justice at the heart of the UK’s foreign policy.
“That is the shape of the transformation Labour is committed to for Britain,” Mr Corbyn will add.
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His keynote speech comes as
*fresh Shadow cabinet tensions emerged as Sir Keir Starmer, the Shadow Brexit Secretary, was said to be “furious” at the description of Brexit by his colleague John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, who insisted it was an “enormous opportunity” and
*Labour’s bid to stop plans to reduce the number of MPs from 650 to 600 cleared its first hurdle in the Commons but the party’s MPs faced accusations that they wanted to halt the proposals because they were "frightened" of losing their seats to the pro-Corbyn group Momentum.
Meantime, Scottish Labour denounced the "appalling" parliamentary records of SNP MPs on parliamentary questions and votes, saying they showed several were not stronger for Scotland, as they claimed, but in fact “weaker for Scotland”.
However, the Nationalists hit back with a spokeswoman saying: “Scottish Labour are really scrapping the barrel. They are criticising SNP MPs for not submitting enough written questions but, by their own figures, SNP MPs are on average in the chamber twice as much as their sole MP Ian Murray.”
She added: “The electorate decide how well they are being represented and Scottish Labour did such a poor job of representing the people of Scotland that they were all but wiped out at the last election. They should stop barking from the side lines and join the SNP in holding the Tories to account.”
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