Jeremy Corbyn

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Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949 in Wiltshire) is a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament for Islington North.

He has been in the House of Commons since he won his seat at the 1983 general election. An old boy of Adams' Grammar School in Shropshire, he is a left-wing member of the Labour Party and is in the Socialist Campaign Group. He has a column in The Morning Star. A long-time supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, he sits on its National Council. Before his election to parliament he was an elected councillor in the London Borough of Haringey (1974-1983).

He divorced his wife due to irreconcilable differences about sending their children to selective schools, although they live in the same house in Tufnell Park for the moment.

He is one of the signatories to Tony Banks' "Pigeon Bombs" Early Day Motion and Michael Meacher's Climate Change EDM.

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.^[1]

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

In December 2006, rumours emerged that Corbyn was considering running for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party;^[2] these have thus far neither been confirmed nor denied by Corbyn himself.

According to an article Jeremy Corbyn along with John McDonnell have signed a petition Calling on UK to lift ban on LTTE - which is registered as a terrorist group by the European Union [1].