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Jeremy Corbyn
Member of Parliament
for Islington North
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 June 1983
Preceded byMichael O'Halloran
Majority21,194 (43.0%)
Personal details
Born (1949-05-26) 26 May 1949 (age 75)
Chippenham, Wiltshire, England
Political partyLabour
Children3 sons
Alma materAdams' Grammar School
Websitewww.jeremycorbyn.org.uk

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.

Early and personal life

He attended Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire. He is the younger brother of Piers Corbyn.

He currently 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.

Political career

He is considered one of the most left-wing of Labour MPs and is member of 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.

He was re-elected in 2015 with 60.24% of the vote, and a majority of 21,194.

Stop the War

He was fiercely opposed to the Iraq War and has spoken at many anti-war rallies in Britain and overseas. 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

He is a long-standing supporter of a United Ireland, inviting Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to London in 1984. He is a prominent Amnesty International member. He campaigned for the trial of the late former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet.

Corbyn announced in December 2006 that he was considering running for the Labour party deputy leadership to provide an anti-war candidate but later changed his mind as he knew that he almost certain to lose.

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 and John McDonnell have signed a petition Calling on UK to lift the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, registered as a terrorist group by the European Union.

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

In early 2013, Corbyn co-signed a letter which was published in The Guardian newspaper that indicated his support for the People's Assembly movement.

In 2013, Corbyn attended a conference in London, organised by the Argentine Foreign Ministry, calling for dialogue between the UK and Argentine governments on the question of Falkland Island sovereignty.

In 2013, Corbyn an advocate for dalit rights, told The Indian Express newspaper that caste prejudice was "exported to the U.K. through the Indian Diaspora. The same attitudes of superiority, pollution and separateness appear to be present in South Asian communities now settled in the UK".

UNISON — the Public Service Union

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. He was one of 16 signatories of an open letter to Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling on the party to commit to oppose further austerity, take rail franchises back into public ownership and strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.

Labour leadership bid, 2015

Main article: Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2015

On 3 June 2015, BBC News Online reported that Corbyn was a candidate in the contest to become the next Leader of the Labour Party following Ed Milliband’s resignation. The BBC report quoted Corbyn as telling the Islington Tribune that he would stand on a "clear anti-austerity platform". Corbyn added: "This decision to stand is in response to an overwhelming call by Labour Party members who want to see a broader range of candidates and a thorough debate about the future of the party. I am standing to give Labour Party members a voice in this debate".

Awards

Corbyn has won the Parliamentary Beard of the Year award a record five times, and the Beard of the Year, having described his beard as "a form of dissent" against New Labour.

In January 2013, Corbyn was awarded the Grassroot Diplomat Initiative Honouree for his ongoing support for a number of non-government organisations and civil causes, where Corbyn is reported to go out of his way to attend and speak at NGO events across the country.

Notes

  1. "Jeremy Corbyn MP". UK Parliament. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  2. "Labour MPs who rebelled on Iraq". BBC News. 31 October 2006. Retrieved 31 October 2006.
  3. http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/jeremy-corbyn
  4. "BBC NEWS – Find Your MP – Islington North – Jeremy Corbyn". BBC News.
  5. Hélène Mulholland (20 December 2006). "Meacher set to challenge Brown from left". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  6. "Call on Britain to lift ban on LTTE". TamilNet. 28 December 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  7. People's Assembly opening letter http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/feb/05/people-assembly-against-austerity 5 February 2013, The Guardian Newspaper.
  8. http://www.ibtimes.com/indian-caste-system-imported-britain-dalits-say-yes-upper-caste-hindus-say-no-1343069 Caste prejudice exported to the U.K. through the Indian Diaspora
  9. "Voting Record for Jeremy Corbyn".
  10. Eaton, George (26 January 2015). "The Labour left demand a change of direction - why their intervention matters". New Statesman. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  11. "Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn enters race". BBC News Online. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
  12. Malvern, Jack (10 January 2002). "Beards – Diary". The Times.
  13. "Grassroot Diplomat Who's Who". Grassroot Diplomat. 15 March 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2015.

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Preceded byMichael O'Halloran Member of Parliament for Islington North
1983–present 		Incumbent
Gandhi Foundation International Peace Award Recipients

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