Communists have ‘no major differences’ with Corbyn

THE Communist Party of Britain has claimed there are “no major differences” on key policy areas between its beliefs and those of Jeremy Corbyn.

Robert Griffiths, the general secretary of the party, said the Labour leader had helped re-energise the radical Left and his emergence had defied critics who believed communism was “hopelessly out of date”.

In the run up to the general election in 2017 the Communist Party made headlines after it said it would not field any candidates for the first time in almost a century after suggesting Mr Corbyn would help achieve its “revolutionary” aims. Mr Griffiths told the Financial Times that Mr Corbyn was “very much his own person” when he was asked how close the Labour leader was to the party. But his insistence that there are “no major differences on immediate issues” is likely to reignite the scrutiny of his policies.

The current state of play has been likened to the blueprint contained within The British Road to Socialism, a text prized by communists which was published in 1951, which sets out a path to power. A key part of the strategy is a Left-wing takeover of the Labour Party.

A Labour spokesman said: “Labour stands unequivocally for the policies laid out in our manifesto, which were supported by nearly 13 million people in last year’s general election.”