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There was a rock star reception for Jeremy Corbyn today as the Labour leader promised a rally of supporters that they could turn the political landscape of Cornwall rose red.

Chants of "ooooh Jeremy Corbyn" rippled around Heartlands in Pool echoing the rapturous reception the politician received at Glastonbury this year.

After an impassioned speech which lasted around 30 minutes and was delivered without the aid of a script or auto-prompter, the clearly relaxed MP posed for numerous selfies with the crowd and even signed autographs.

(Image: Greg Martin)

It was a far cry from the last time a party leader visited Cornwall when ahead of June's General Election Prime Minister Theresa May visited a factory in Helston and famously shut Cornwall Live journalists in a room, banned them from filming and sped away.

oday's rally at Heartlands was ostensibly called to provide a show of unity for the NHS, with a visit to the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Truro taking place beforehand.

Introduced by friend, the former Labour MP and now Cornwall councillor Candy Atherton, Mr Corbyn said supporters could afford to think big.

"We do not play by the rules," he said.

"We want to take the message to every part of the country that things should, could and will be different in the future."

He paid tribute to Luke Pollard, who took the Plymouth Sutton and Devonport seat for Labour on June 8, but said the party could do more in Cornwall, especially after confounding expectations and coming second in two constituencies.

"We need to go further west of Devonport, cross the Tamar and get our MPs into Cornwall," he said.

Speaking to the media afterwards, Mr Corbyn insisted that the political tide was already turning in Cornwall and that it was no pipe dream for the party to return a number of MPs.

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He said membership of the party had continued to rise and that "to win the general election we have to win in all parts of the country."

The Islington MP said that the party's message would chime true across parts of the country that were not necessarily Labour's traditional heartlands.

"If you are insecure and in a low paid job and living in a beautiful village, you are still in an insecure and low paid job."

Although Mr Corbyn, is famously lukewarm on the EU and his party's position on Brexit is often criticised as being vague, the leader said funds from the organisation were vital to counties like Cornwall.

He said that up to the point the UK left the EU, promised structural funding should be delivered.

After Brexit, Mr Corbyn promised that the shortfall would be made up with funds from the National Investment Bank, a Labour manifesto pledge which the party hopes will inject £500billion into the economy after the UK has left the EU.

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However, it was on the subject of the NHS - support for which was the reason to stage the rally - that Mr Corbyn spoke with the clearest sense of purpose.

He told the crowd that the UK, which included a number of health workers, that the UK could not go follow the path of further privatisation and become the system in the USA.

To a huge roar of approval he accused Cornwall's Tory MPs of crying "crocodile tears" when they spoke of how wonderful the NHS was but failed to vote a bill to end a pay freeze.

He said: "It should not be that the wealthier you are the longer you live, it should be the healthier you are the longer you live."