Tag: Jeremy Corbyn PM

• Tuesday, September 29th 2015 - 06:54 UTC

  A repeat of the Corbyn surprise in United States?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Jeremy “Jez” Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are very much alike - and so are their ambitions. Corbyn wants to lead Britain's Labour Party into the next election and become prime minister; Sanders wants to win the Democratic Party nomination and become the next President of the United States. And then each man plans to turn his country sharply to the left.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2015 - 06:19 UTC

  Corbyn's Falklands 'negotiable' approach causes dissent among Labour

  

  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn statement that the Falkland Islands are 'negotiable', a position he has maintained since he was first elected to Parliament, not only triggered immediate reaction from veterans and Falkland Islanders when he was chosen earlier this month: in effect, senior members from the party, even those within his shadow cabinet openly express their disapproval of his views, according to UK media reports.

• Thursday, September 17th 2015 - 10:03 UTC

  Corbyn tells BBC he will not campaign for Britain to leave the European Union

  

  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told the BBC that he will not campaign for Britain to leave the European Union. Mr. Corbyn said that while policy was “developing” he could not foresee a situation where Labor would campaign for a “Brexit” under his leadership. He has come under growing pressure from Labour MPs to clarify his position.

• Monday, September 14th 2015 - 09:24 UTC

  Corbyn's victory seems to indicate Labor wants to move to the left and away from Blair-Brown era

  

  When Jeremy Corbyn entered the race to lead the Labor Party earlier this year, he struggled to get the 35 nominations from members of parliament needed to make it onto the ballot. That is a distant memory after he won a resounding victory to become the leader of the party. With 59.5% of the first-preference votes, Corbyn's mandate beats that won by Tony Blair in 1994.

• Saturday, August 29th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Falklands' MLAs confident they can 'educate' UK politicians who have swallowed the Argentine story

  

  Falkland Islands elected lawmakers believe that the election of MP Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Labor would be harmful for that party, but anyhow they are confident that as happened before, they can 'educate' detractors who argue that Britain and Argentina should negotiate over the Falklands.

• Friday, April 3rd 2015 - 06:03 UTC

  Argentina poses no military threat to the Malvinas Islands. So why is the UK ratcheting up tension?

  

  The following column by Alicia Castro (*) was published 02 April by the Independent - On 24 March, the day that a debate was held in Parliament over the increase in defense expenditure for the Malvinas Islands, Argentina was commemorating the anniversary of the 1976 military coup.