Socialist Corbyn wins UK Labour leadership in landslide

Veteran socialist Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour party on Saturday in a landslide victory that gives the country its most left-wing political leader in decades. The 66-year-old, whose policies have been compared to those of Greece’s Syriza and Spain’s Podemos, was named leader after clinching 59.5 percent of the votes cast by Labour supporters.

We don’t have to be unequal, it doesn’t have to be unfair, poverty isn’t inevitable, things can and they will change.

New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

The new chief could divide Britain’s main opposition party and he immediately faced resignations from the shadow cabinet amid warnings from party grandees that a Corbyn-led Labour would be consigned to electoral oblivion. Corbyn has electrified Labour’s leadership race, which was triggered by the resignation of Ed Miliband after he lost May’s general election to David Cameron’s centre-right, pro-austerity Conservatives.

Labour are now a serious risk to our nation’s security, our economy’s security and your family’s security.

Conservative Party statement.

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