When Jeremy Corbyn launched his leadership bid this week, he walked in flanked by 10 women. All of them were young, smiling - and avid Corbynites.

But who are these women quite literally standing behind the current Labour leader? Here we speak to them to find out why they’re such staunch Corbyn supporters and how they feel about finding their faces all over newspapers.

Katy Herrington, 18

Grew up in Brentwood, Essex and now hopes to study History and Politics at the University of Hull

I had no idea we’d be photographed coming in – or that we’d be by Jeremy Corbyn. We just all arrived at the same time, and he came out of a taxi while we walked past. He smiled and waved at us, so we all followed him. It’s all been very exciting.

I have been a Labour supporter since 2015. I was one of Ed Miliband’s ‘milifans’ on Twitter. That’s when I got involved and made lots of Labour friends. I’ve always known I belonged in the party but I didn’t feel it fully reflected my views until there was this man who was saying what I believed.

I didn’t know who Corbyn was when he first announced he was standing – I didn’t have the privilege of growing up in Islington – but I looked him up on Twitter and all his policies made sense to me. It’s about being different to the Tories. He’s not saying we need a bit of austerity and we need to still curb immigration a bit, he’s anti-austerity and saying we need to stand up against this negative rhetoric around immigrants and people on benefits. I spent last summer campaigning for Corbyn and I’m going to do the same this year.