Jeremy Corbyn at TUC: 'Labour can win 2020 election'
- 9 years ago
Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour can win the 2020 election with a "vision of a better society" - and accused David Cameron of being a "poverty denier".
Ahead of the TUC speech, leading unions warned they will vote for a UK exit from the EU if workers' rights are weakened by the PM's EU renegotiations while one shadow cabinet member said he would quit if the party argued for an Out vote.
Reflecting on the "fast journey" that he had taken since being elected leader on Saturday, Mr Corbyn vowed to "build" on the momentum generated by his successful leadership campaign to develop a new kind of politics, saying 30,000 people had joined the Labour Party in the past three days.
He pledged to fight government legislation which would impose a 50% threshold for participation in strike ballots, and a 40% threshold for stoppages involving essential public services, saying it was a "declaration of war" which contravened basic rights of free association.
Ahead of the TUC speech, leading unions warned they will vote for a UK exit from the EU if workers' rights are weakened by the PM's EU renegotiations while one shadow cabinet member said he would quit if the party argued for an Out vote.
Reflecting on the "fast journey" that he had taken since being elected leader on Saturday, Mr Corbyn vowed to "build" on the momentum generated by his successful leadership campaign to develop a new kind of politics, saying 30,000 people had joined the Labour Party in the past three days.
He pledged to fight government legislation which would impose a 50% threshold for participation in strike ballots, and a 40% threshold for stoppages involving essential public services, saying it was a "declaration of war" which contravened basic rights of free association.