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| He was fiercely opposed to the War in Iraq and has spoken at many anti-war rallies in the UK and abroad. | He was fiercely opposed to the War in Iraq and has spoken at many anti-war rallies in the UK and abroad. | ||
| Corbyn is a prominent Amnesty International member. He was adamant that the former Chilean president,Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, should stand trial. In Corbyn's remarks about Pincohet, Corbyn prejudged the outcome of the judicial hearing. | |||
| Corbyn's supposed attachment to human rights has been challenged in view of Corbyn's extremely cosy relationship with Sinn Fein, the political face of the IRA. | |||
| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
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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 1983. 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 is an elected member of the Stop the War Coalition steering committee.
He famously 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.
Corbyn is a prominent Amnesty International member. He was adamant that the former Chilean president,Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, should stand trial. In Corbyn's remarks about Pincohet, Corbyn prejudged the outcome of the judicial hearing.
Corbyn's supposed attachment to human rights has been challenged in view of Corbyn's extremely cosy relationship with Sinn Fein, the political face of the IRA.
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
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