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General election 2019: Corbyn vows to take on wealthy elite as he launches Labour's 'manifesto of hope' – live news


Q: Why do you think the public will back this manifesto when voters weren’t won over by the 2017 one?

Corbyn says this is a radical manifesto. But radical answers are what is necessary. When you have a mental health crisis, and working people in poverty, and overcrowded school, and unqualified teachers, and people unable to buy their own home, you realise what is needed.

And when you live in a community that once had a proud industrial basis to it, a steelworks or coal mine, and you walk down the high street and see empty shops, you recognise the scale of need.

He says he is very proud of the fact it is a radical manifesto.


The levels of poverty are horrific. And poverty is such a waste of the abilities of people.

Corbyn says children cannot achieve properly at school if they are growing up in poverty.

He says Labour did not win the last election. He knows that every day, because he sees that in his advice surgery, and he sees problems getting worse. That is why he is determined to get his message across.

Q: In the TV debate you were laughed at when you would not say how you would vote in the second Brexit referendum. Is your policy credible, and how would you vote?

Q: Some of your plans would fall foul of EU rules on state aid. So could Labour really campaign for remain?

Taking both questions together, Corbyn says people voted to leave the EU in 2016.

People have spent a lot of time discussing Brexit, and the shadow cabinet has too.

He has sought to understand why people voted leave. There are people facing the same problems, some of whom voted remain and some of whom voted leave.

He sets out Labour’s policy – a renegotiation followed by a referendum.

He says it is responsible to try to bring people together.

He does not accept that the UK must remain divided. He wants to give people the final say, and then carry out the result of that vote.

Regarding EU state aid rules, he says Labour has looked at this carefully. He says all his policies are possible under EU state aid rules.



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