Jeremy Corbyn: Labour party '˜preparing to go into government'

Labour is a party 'preparing to go into government', leader Jeremy Corbyn has insisted.

By The Newsroom Friday, 9th March 2018, 3:55 pm Updated Friday, 9th March 2018, 4:03 pm

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after his address to delegates at the party conference in Dundee. Picture: PA

The veteran left-winger said while his party “didn’t quite win” the 2017 snap general election, they had defied the critics who claimed Labour was “heading for a wipeout”.

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Mr Corbyn, speaking at the Scottish Labour conference in Dundee, said: “That’s not how it turned out.

“With our popular and fully costed manifesto we offered the chance of transformation and hope and confounded those so-called experts.”

He added: “Of course I know that we didn’t quite win. But conference we are no longer just an opposition. We are a party preparing to go into government.