“I’m launching my Labour leadership campaign.

“In my campaign I want to confront the injustices holding people and communities back – inequality, neglect, insecurity, prejudice and discrimination.

“We will set out some of the measures the next Labour government will take to overcome them. A government under my leadership will move decisively towards a society in which opportunity and prosperity is truly shared – in which no individual is held back and no community left behind.”

Since becoming Leader the Labour Party under Corbyn fhas orced the Tory Government to back down on “cuts to tax credits, cuts to Personal Independence Payments for people with disabilities, forced academisation, police cuts, the Trade Union Act and won numerous concessions on the Housing Act”.

He has just voted against the renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System and he has a consistent track record of opposing war. The results of the contest will be known on Sept 24th.