Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to grace cover of music magazine NME

Jeremy Corbyn will follow in the footsteps of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and Rihanna by gracing the cover of music magazine NME.

The Labour leader revealed in an interview with the magazine that his favourite song is John Lennon’s Imagine, while he listens to Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 during his evenings at home.

Mr Corbyn also told NME that he was looking at ways to help students who have accrued big debts after paying tuition fees of £9,000 a year.

Labour has pledged to abolish university tuition fees if it gets into power.

“There is a block of those that currently have a massive debt, and I’m looking at ways that we could reduce that, ameliorate that, lengthen the period of paying it off, or some other means of reducing that debt burden,” said Mr Corbyn.

“I don’t have the simple answer for it at this stage – I don’t think anybody would expect me to, because this election was called unexpectedly, we had two weeks to prepare all of this – but I’m very well aware of that problem.”

Mr Corbyn also said the NHS “is very close to collapse” and could become “a health service of last resort”.

He added: “Those that can afford it will then buy private medicine, those that couldn’t... we’d end up as a sort of American emergency room system. I’m utterly appalled by that prospect.”

The full interview appears in this week’s NME, which is out tomorrow.