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Revision as of 18:31, 9 December 2005 by Philip Cross (talk | contribs) (copyedit)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949, 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.
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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