Corbyn: Why I ’m certain I can still beat PM TO GO
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JEREMY Corbyn vows to finish what he started by getting rid of Theresa May within days.
The Labour leader plans to use the upcoming Queen’s Speech, a week tomorrow, as his first opportunity to topple the Prime Minister.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror, Mr Corbyn said: “I can still be Prime Minister. This is still on. Absolutely.
“Theresa May has been to the Palace. She’s now attempting to form a government. She’s then got to present a programme to Parliament.
“We will, obviously, amend the Queen’s Speech. There’s a possibility of voting it down and we’re going to push that all the way.
Mandate
“We have got a mandate to deal with issues of poverty, justice and inequality in Britain. We want to end austerity and invest in this country, and that’s what we’re going to do. “Nearly 13 million people voted for us to do it. That’s why I’m here.” The election result led to Mrs May scrambling to form a minority government with any kind of majority in Parliament and enlisting the hard-right DUP to get her over the line. But Mr Corbyn believes there is enough opposition in the rest of the house, and on Mrs May’s back benches, to defeat the g government. That could trigger a generalgener election as the Tories wouldwou face a confidence motio motion. And the Labo Labour leader is confident his p progressive manifesto will w win enough support in ParliamentParli to propel him to pow power. Mr Corbyn ad added: “It’s very unclear on t he program programme they’ll be a able to put for forward. “But we w will put up o our demands and our message and we will assert those. I don’t think Theresa May and this government have any credibility.
“The Prime Minister called this election on the basis she would need a stronger mandate to negotiate Brexit. Well, look what’s happened.”
Drawing comparisons to Labour snatching leadership from the Tories in the past, he went on: “The parallels are with 1974, when the Conservatives sought – as they have done this time – a ‘who governs Britain?’ mandate.
“Ted Heath lost and tried to form another government and tried to get another majority in Parliament.
“And eventually Harold Wilson managed to form a government. She’s taking JEREMY Corbyn has been MP for Islington North since 1983. And you can tell.
What should have been a half-hour interview turned into an hour as people came into the cafe looking for selfies, handshakes and a bit of advice.
There were well-wishers, constituents, workers from over the road and even a couple of bewildered Dutch tourists.
“We saw him on the TV and had to come and say hello,” said one.
For a man who has had an aggregate of about four hours sleep in the last couple of days, Mr Corbyn is extremely patient.
“Are you tired?” asked one tourist. “No,” he said, “I’ve got two days to rest my voice then it’s all going to start again.”
Between selfies I managed to ask him about what must have been the most extraordinary few days in his political life.
The madness went up a gear on Thursday: “I spent the day in my us back to those times. It’s back to the 70s with Theresa May.” Mr Corbyn believes the return of former Labour rebels, who have expressed support following his successful campaign, is one of the keys to success.
And he is confident he can attract big-hitters who deserted the front bench back into the fold. He said: “Everything’s still to play for. We can still do this.
“My phone is full of texts from lots and lots of people from right across the party. I’m very happy about that. I’m very proud to lead this party.
“And I’m open to everyone. It’s important to make that clear. I never get involved in personal abuse or anything like that. If people have political disagreements, that’s fine. We can discuss those. I’ll be appointing a Shadow Cabinet over the next couple of days and announcing it next week.”
Labour’s election campaign performance stunned many political insiders. Despite not securing enough seats for a win, Mr Corbyn insisted the party is ideally placed for the next election.
He said: “We’ve got the biggest increase in the Labour vote between elections since the Second World War.
“We put on more than three million votes. We got 40 per cent of the share. That was the highest any opinion poll put us on. That was people coming back to Labour who had gone away a long time ago. And, of course, young people