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Jeremy CorbynMP
Member of Parliament
for Islington North
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 June 1983
Preceded byMichael O'Halloran
Majority12,401 (27.8%)
Personal details
Born (1949-05-26) 26 May 1949 (age 75)
Chippenham, Wiltshire, England
Political partyLabour
Children3 sons
Alma materAdams' Grammar School, Newport

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983.

Political career

He is considered one of the most left wing members of the Labour Party and is in the Socialist Campaign Group. He has a weekly column in The Morning Star. A long-time supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), he is one of its three Vice-Chairs. Before his election to Parliament, he was an elected councillor in the London Borough of Haringey (1974–83). He is on the London Regional Select Committee.

Stop the War

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. On 31 October 2006, Corbyn was one of 12 Labour MPs to back Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party's call for an inquiry into the war.

Campaigns

Corbyn is a prominent Amnesty International member. He campaigned for the trial of the late former Chilean dictator, General Pinochet.

Jeremy Corbyn announced in December 2006 that he was considering running for the Labour party deputy leadership to provide an anti-war candidate, but in the event did not stand.

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 a BBC article, Jeremy Corbyn along with John McDonnell have signed a petition Calling on UK to lift ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - which is registered as a terrorist group by the European Union.

He has recently campaigned against the Gaza–Israel conflict, and promotes the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Unison

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 and also speaking at the organisations annual conference in 2007 attacking the record of the media and calling for a No Platform of the BNP.

Rebellion

Since 2005 he has defied the whip 238 times (25% of the time), making him one of the most rebellious Labour MPs only matched by Kate Hoey.

Awards

Corbyn won the 2001 Beard of the Year award, after having described his beard as "a form of dissent" against New Labour.

Early and personal life

He attended Adams' Grammar School in Shropshire. He is the younger brother of Piers Corbyn, a global warming sceptic.

He lives in Finsbury Park and has three sons. Previously Corbyn lived in Lausanne Road in Harringay where he was active in securing the future of a small local park created from a World War II bomb site.

Notes

  1. "Labour MPs who rebelled on Iraq". BBC News. 31 October 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
  2. Hélène Mulholland (20 December 2006). "Meacher set to challenge Brown from left". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-04-27.
  3. "Call on UK to lift ban on LTTE". TamilNet. 28 December 2006. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  4. "Unite Against Fascism successful counter-rally against the BNP in Dagenham outnumbers fascists 7 to 1". Unite Against Fascism. 12 December 2006. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  5. "Jerry Dammers, Babyshambles, Peter Hain MP join trade unions, faith leaders and MPs at anti-BNP conference". Unite Against Fascism. 14 February 2007. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  6. "Voting Record for Jeremy Corbyn".
  7. Malvern, Jack (10 January 2002). "Beards - Diary". The Times.

External links

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