Framing the debate
Framing the debate Jeremy Corbyn's first campaign speech tried to frame the campaign's debate on Labour's turf.Jeremy Corbyn vows to 'overturn the rigged system
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to "overturn the rigged system" by putting power and wealth back in the hands of "the people".
In his first major general election speech, he said 8 June's poll was not a "foregone conclusion" and Labour could defy the "Establishment experts"…
Theresa May is hoping to convert the Tories' double digit poll lead into a bigger Commons majority…
The Labour leader looks set to run an anti-establishment campaign, presenting himself as a champion of the powerless against political and business elites.
He attacked the "morally bankrupt" Conservatives who he said would not stand up to tax avoiders and other members of a "gilded elite," who were extracting wealth "from the pockets of ordinary working people".
Labour would "end this racket" and "overturn the rigged system," he told an audience of Labour supporters in London.
He also said Labour was the only party that would "focus on the kind of country we want to have after Brexit" - dismissing Mrs May's election campaign as an "ego trip about her own failing leadership".
And he insisted all of Labour's policies, including an increase in corporation tax for big business and more money for carers and a £10 an hour minimum wage, were fully costed…
His message was uncompromising. Jeremy Corbyn attacked targets from what he called the ruling elite. In doing so, he was trying to recapture the energy and rhetoric which enabled him to win not one, but two, Labour leadership contests.
He said a future Labour government wouldn't play by the rules and denounced his Conservative opponents as morally bankrupt. Butthe City, the media and business people were also in his sights - it created dividing lines not just with his current political opponents but with his party's New Labour past…
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