Corbyn Says His Euphoric Labour Party Is Ready to Run U.K.
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Jeremy Corbyn at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, England, on Sept. 26, 2017.
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Labour is ready to rule, Jeremy Corbyn will tell activists at the end of a conference that cemented the main opposition leader’s position as the standard bearer of a socialist revival in British politics.
The convention hall and meeting rooms across Brighton, southern England, echoed with chants of his name as scarves, T-shirts and comic books for sale celebrated the politician-cum-pop-icon and his completion of the left-wing project to wrest back control of the 117-year-old party after its shift to the center under Tony Blair.