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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949 in Wiltshire) is a British Member of Parliament for Islington North.
He is a member of the Labour Party and 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 still live in the same house.
He is one of the signatories to Tony Banks' "Pigeon Bombs" Early Day Motionand Michael Meacher's Climate Change EDM.
He was fiercely opposed to the War in Iraq 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.
Corbyn is a prominent Amnesty International member. He campaigned for the trial of former Chilean president, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte.
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External links
- ePolitix - Jeremy Corbyn MP official site
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Jeremy Corbyn MP
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Jeremy Corbyn MP
- The Public Whip - Jeremy Corbyn MP voting record
- BBC News - Jeremy Corbyn profile 8 March, 2005
- The Big Ask More about the Climate Change EDM
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Current British MPs
- Councillors in Greater London
- Labour MPs (UK)
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament from English constituencies
- MPs of the 49th UK Parliament (1983-1987)
- MPs of the 50th UK Parliament (1987-1992)
- MPs of the 51st UK Parliament (1992-1997)
- MPs of the 52nd UK Parliament (1997-2001)
- MPs of the 53rd UK Parliament (2001-2005)
- MPs of the 54th UK Parliament (2005-)