JEREMY CORBYN has boasted that he will be Prime Minister by the end of the year, it emerged today.

The Labour leader also pledged to get rid of Britain's nukes "as soon as he can" - even though his party is committed to keeping them.

Mr Corbyn yesterday appeared on Glastonbury's main stage where he read poetry to a crowd of young music fans.

5 Jeremy Corbyn has apparently boasted he will be in power by the end of the year Credit: Reuters

The festival's boss Michael Eavis today said that the speech had been "fantastic" and revealed the chat the two men had beforehand.

Somerset Live reported that Mr Eavis asked Mr Corbyn, "When are you going to be Prime Minister?" - the Labour boss replied, "In six months."

He then asked the Leader of the Opposition, "When are you going to get rid of Trident?"

5 Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis, pictured with Mr Corbyn yesterday, revealed his conversation with the Labour leader Credit: Getty Images

Mr Corbyn responded: "As soon as I can."

The Labour leader is a lifelong opponent of nuclear weapons who was until last month a vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

But his party is formally committed to keeping Britain's nuclear deterrent.

5 Mr Corbyn embraced activist singer Billy Bragg during his appearance at Glastonbury Credit: Rex Features

5 A young Corbyn fan at Glastonbury wearing a T-shirt in his honour Credit: Rex Features

Mr Corbyn has strongly suggested that if he became PM, he would refuse to use nukes even if the country were attacked.

Experts say that would defeat the point of having the weapons - because the deterrent only works if enemies believe that it is credible.

A senior defence source said: “Jeremy Corbyn chose to go to a music festival on the day we honour the brave men and women who protect us. So it should come as no surprise he wants to ditch the nuclear deterrent that keeps us safe.”

Labour MP John Woodcock, whose Barrow and Furness constituency builds the Trident submarines, said: “Folk go to Glastonbury and their perception of reality gets temporarily altered.”

5 Mr Corbyn pictured speaking at an anti-Trident rally hosted by CND last year Credit: PA:Press Association Wire

A senior Labour source insisted the conversation had been paraphrased and was not verbatim.

A spokeswoman for Mr Corbyn said: “Both Jeremy and the Labour Party have long been committed to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty which aims to achieve a nuclear-free world.”

But she added: “Trident renewal is Labour policy, as spelled out in our manifesto.”

The Labour boss appeared at Glastonbury to introduce the activist rap group Run the Jewels.

He read an extract from a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which ends, "Ye are many - they are few!"

Mr Eavis, who founded Glastonbury in 1970, is a huge fan of Mr Corbyn and praised his "fundamental sense of justice".

But he also criticised the leader's campaign group Momentum for not pushing hard enough to get young people to vote in the EU referendum.

He complained: "Why didn't they vote in the referendum? Momentum should gave done more to persuade them to vote."