Corbyn: We have four weeks to convince the voters

JEREMY CORBYN will today warn Labour supporters they only have four weeks to take their message to voters “and convince them Britain can be better”, as he re-launches the party’s General Election campaign.

The speech in Manchester is the latest in a series of election rallies by Mr Corbyn and other Shadow Cabinet members, and will see the Labour leader repeat his mantra to “transform Britain for the many not the few”.

Addressing party activists, Mr Corbyn will also pledge to pursue a Brexit that will “safeguard the future of Britain’s vital industries” and “pave the way to a fairer society”.

“Labour is offering a real choice... We have four weeks to take our message to voters to convince them Britain can be better. It can be transformed,” he will say.

The launch follows yesterday’s announcement by the Labour leader that the party would introduce free car parking at all NHS hospitals in England

Unveiling the plan while visiting nursing students in Tory-held Worcester, Mr Corbyn said described the charges as “a tax on serious illness”.

“Labour will end hospital parking charges, which place an unfair and unnecessary burden on families, patients and NHS staff,” he said.

“Our hospitals are struggling from under-funding at the hands of Theresa May’s Conservative government, but the gap should not be filled by charging sick patients, anxious relatives and already hard-pressed NHS staff for an essential service.”

The event also follows controversial suggestions by the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell’s that there is “a lot to learn” from the works of communist economist Karl Marx. Mr Corbyn yesterday defended his comments, saying “all great economists influence all of our thinking”. But Labour’s critics quickly seized on the situation to dub the pair the “two Marx brothers”.