Corbyn will ‘have a think’ about standing to be mayor of London
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ormer Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn advised an viewers on the Edinburgh Fringe he’ll “have a think about” standing for election as an impartial mayor of London.
Mr Corbyn appeared alongside former Unite normal secretary Len McCluskey as a part of the All Talk occasion by broadcaster Iain Dale on the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Saturday.
Asked if he was contemplating a run for the mayoralty as an impartial, Mr Corbyn advised viewers members: “Well let’s have a think about it, shall we?
“I want to see change in our society. I’m not disappearing, I’m not going away.
“I look at my diary and I’m more active than I have ever been at any other time in my life.”
Last month Mr Corbyn advised the LBC radio station he was “not ruling anything in and not ruling anything out” about his future in politics.
Mr Corbyn, 74, was unexpectedly elected as chief of the Labour Party in 2015.
He resigned following a historic defeat on the 2019 normal election.
He was additionally requested if he was contemplating standing in his Islington North constituency as an impartial, which he has represented since 1983.
Mr Corbyn stated: “I’m very happy and very proud to be the MP for Islington North.
“I live in the area, I know large numbers of of people in the area.
“I have learned a great deal from the people I represent. I am available to represent the people if that is what they wish.”
Mr McCluskey led the Unite commerce union whereas Mr Corbyn was in workplace.
They have put collectively an anthology of poems, Poetry For The Many, to be printed in November.
In a departure from Mr McCluskey’s barnstorming speeches at protests and picket traces, the viewers listened to him learn numerous his favorite poems together with The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Iain Dale, Len McCluskey and Jeremy Corbyn on stage at Edinburgh Fringe
/ Lauren Gilmour/PAApologising for his pronunciation of Scots, he additionally learn Robert Burns’ poem Scots Wha Hae.
The males additionally mentioned the warfare in Ukraine and present Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer.
Mr Corbyn and Mr McCluskey agreed that the one manner ahead was for a negotiation to happen between Ukraine and Russia.
Mr Corbyn stated: “Where does this war go? More and more fighting, more and more killing.
“There are a lot of nuclear weapons available.
“We cannot be spectators in watching a wholly unnecessary war spiral out of control that ends up in serious danger of being a nuclear conflict, of which there will be no winners, there will only be losers, but we won’t know who we are because we’ll all be dead.
“That is where nuclear weapons could lead us.”