Jeremy Corbyn today sought to tighten his grip on the Labour party with a vow to oppose all spending cuts, replacing Trident and bombing jihadi terrorists in Syria.

In a long - and at times rambling - speech, the Labour leader was forced to deny that his Left-wing anti-cuts, anti-war agenda poses a threat to national security.

He launched a series attacks on the media and the Conservatives while receiving a standing ovation after calling for an end to abuse online.

The thousands of Left-wing supporters packed into the conference hall in Brighton were delighted with what he boasted was a new 'straight talking, honest politics'.

But during the hour-long rant in which he complained about social media abuse and quoted poets, he failed to mention immigration or the deficit - the two biggest issues on which Labour remains untrusted by voters.

David Cameron dismissed the socialist's pitch to Britain, claiming that Labour is 'heading off into the hills'.

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Jeremy Corbyn today begged his supporters to sit down so he could start his first ever conference speech as leader

Mr Corbyn's sons Ben and Thomas joined the Labour leader's wife Laura Alvarez in the front row for his big speech

Mr Corbyn repeatedly sought to reassert his authority by boasting that with almost 60 per cent of the votes of Labour members and supporters, he has a huge 'mandate for change'.

'It was a vote for change in the way we do politics, in the Labour Party and the country,' he said.

'Kinder, more inclusive. Bottom up, not top down. In every community and workplace, not just at Westminster.'

Mr Corbyn stormed to victory in the race to replace Ed Miliband just 17 days ago.

Since then he has been embroiled in controversies over the lack of women in top jobs, appointing IRA sympathiser and anti-capitalist John McDonnell as shadow chancellor, not singing sing God Save The Queen at a Battle of Britain service and questioning why he should kneel for the Queen.

There also remains deep divisions over key policies, most significantly on issues of national security and defence.

He suffered a major setback this week when a vote on Trident was dramatically pulled from the conference agenda when it become clear that MPs and trade unions would unite to vote to keep the nuclear warheads.

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The new Labour leader who surged to victory on the back of his pared-down, unspun image used an autocue for the first time ever to deliver a speech carefully crafted by PR advisers.

IT'S JEREMY COR-BEAN: LABOUR LEADER MOCKED FOR MISMATCHED JACKET AND TROUSERS Jeremy Corbyn was today accused of turning up to deliver his speech dressed like Mr Bean Jeremy Corbyn issued a passionate plea for people to be 'kinder' to each other online - but was roundly ignored as hundreds of people mocked his appearance and likened him to Mr Bean. After opting for a casual look for most of Labour's four-day party conference, the 66-year-old chose an ill-fitting beige jacket, red tie and blue trousers for the biggest speech of his life. One Twitter user, Julian Cross, wrote: 'I know he probably doesn't have a fashion advisor but someone should have told Corbyn not to dress like Mr Bean.' Marcus Evans added: 'I'm no fan of drab-suited lookalike politicians, but. . . well. . . thing is. . . Corbyn's turned up dressed as Mr Bean.' The Labour leader has come under constant fire for his appearance since succeeding Ed Miliband as leader earlier this month. He gave a rambling victory speech without a tie, wearing an unmatching jacket and trousers, before turning up for a memorial service for the Battle of Britain with his top button undone and his tie hanging scruffily. Advertisement

But Mr Corbyn insisted: 'There is one position I want to make absolutely clear and I believe I have a mandate for this.

'I don't believe spending £100billion on new nuclear weapons is the right way forward.'

MailOnline today revealed that shadow cabinet ministers plotting to force him to back airstrikes against ISIS in Syria.

Mr Corbyn's frontbench team want to push through a vote within the shadow cabinet - binding the Labour party into backing military action.

The Labour leader – who has vowed to oppose airstrikes – would then be forced to vote for action or risk sparking ridicule by rebelling against his own policy.

But Mr Corbyn made clear his opposition to bombing ISIS in Syria. 'The scale of the destruction and suffering in Syria is truly dreadful. I yield to no-one in my opposition to the foul and despicable crimes being carried out by ISIL.

'But the answer to this tragic and dreadful conflict cannot be found in dropping a few more bombs.'

Instead he called for 'clever, patient, difficult diplomacy' to solve the crisis in Syria.

Unlike predecessors such as Tony Blair, he vowed that neither he, his shadow cabinet or Labour MPs would 'impose policy or have a veto' on what the membership decides.

In an olive branch to critics who have refused to serve in his shadow cabinet, he said that rather than, splits and divisions, he wanted 'grown-up politics ... where people put forward different views, we debate issues, we take a decision and we go forward together'.

The Labour leader made a point of thanking his predecessor Ed Miliband for his 'leadership ... courage and dignity', as well as offering his thanks to Harriet Harman - who stood in as leader following the election - and his three rivals in the leadership election, Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham.

After taking the stage in the Brighton conference centre, he was forced to beg his supporters to sit down so he could start his first ever conference speech as leader.

He cried out 'any chance we can start the speech' as they gave the 66-year-old Left-winger a rapturous standing ovation.

He began his speech with a series of jokes about media attacks on him over the summer, including a MailOnline story headlined: 'Revealed: How Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the prospect of an asteroid 'wiping out' humanity.'

The new Labour leader who surged to victory on the back of his pared-down, unspun image used an autocue for the first time ever to deliver a speech carefully crafted by PR advisers.

The Tories have repeatedly claimed the hardline socialist poses a threat to the economic and national security of Britain.

During the hour-long speech he failed to mention immigration or the deficit - the two biggest issues on which Labour remains untrusted by voters

The Labour leader's wife Laura Alvarez and former deputy leader Harriet Harman stood to applaud Mr Corbyn's speech

A NEW KINDER POLITICS: JEREMY CORBYN'S SPEECH AT-A-GLANCE Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly promised a new kind of politics as he set out his key attacks and policy priorities. They included: Complained about 'tawdry media attacks' on Ed Miliband

Boasted that gaining 59 per cent in Labour leadership gives him a 'mandate for change'

Vowed to challenge austerity and oppose spending cuts

Called on Cameron to intervene to prevent the beheading of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia

Rejected claims he poses a threat to national security

Called on Cameron to intervene to save steel jobs on Teeside

Pledged 100,000 new council and housing association homes every year

Called for investment in broadband and a National Investment Bank to fund infrastructure

Said academies and free schools should be brought back under council control

Opposes airstrikes in Syria and renewal of Trident

Condemned 'personal abuse' in politics including on social media

Attacked Tory plan to 'gerrymander' electoral system

Criticised cuts to tax credits while cutting inheritance tax for the wealthy

Defended the BBC and NHS from Tory attacks

Offered statutory maternity and paternity pay to the self-employed

Will nationalise the railways when franchises expire

Promised more funding for mental health care for children AND WHAT WAS MISSING... Immigration

The deficit

The EU referendum

Apology for the Iraq war Advertisement

Today Mr Corbyn hit back: 'I want to tackle one thing head on. The Tories talk about economic and family security being under threat from me.

'How dare these people talk about family security? Where is the security for those tenants afraid to ask a landlord too afraid to ask the landlord to repair a dangerous structure.

'Where is the security for young people starting out on careers knowing there are locked out of ever owning their own home.

'Where is the security for hundreds of thousands who have taken on self employment. There is no security for 2.8million households forced into debt by stagnating wages.

'Tory economic failure, an economy that works for the few not the many. Look at the Tory government failing to intervene to save our steel industry.

'We stand with the people on Teesside fighting for the jobs, their industry and their community. Prime Minister, step in to defend these people. Why can't you intervene? What is wrong with them?'

Labour would fight child tax credit cuts 'every inch of the way' and seek to expose Mr Osborne's announcement of a £7.20-an-hour National Living Wage as an 'absurd lie' which fell far short of a true living wage.

He promised to make mental health a priority, to prevent selection in schools and ensure that they are accountable to local government and to deliver 'the fully integrated publicly owned railway the British people want and need'.

He also confirmed plans to take railway services back into public ownership as franchises come up for renewal.

Mr Corbyn said the Conservative Government existed 'to protect the few and tell all the rest of us to accept what what we're given', offering tax breaks to the hedge funds which have lavished donations on the Tories since David Cameron became leader, while 'cutting jobs ...

slashing public services ... vandalising the NHS ... cutting junior doctors' pay ... reducing care for the elderly ... destroying the hopes of young people for a college education or putting university graduates into massive debt ... putting half a million more people into poverty'.

'They want us to believe there is no alternative,' he said.

'They want the people of Britain to accept all of these things. They expect millions of people to work harder and longer for a lower quality of life.

'Our Labour Party says No.

'The British people never have to take what they are given. And certainly not when it comes from Cameron and Osborne.'

Mr Corbyn accused the Tories of trying to 'gerrymander' elections in London and Wales next year by striking millions of people off the electoral register.

The Labour leader vowed to launch a nationwide campaign to sign voters back up to the electoral register in time for the crunch elections.

Mr Corbyn confirmed plans to take railway services back into public ownership as franchises come up for renewal

He used his speech to repeatedly attack the media, claiming he had been mis-represented and not given a fair hearing

The electoral register is being transferred from a household-based system to one where every voter is registered individually.

Mr Corbyn said: 'Just before the summer, the Tories sneaked out a plan to strike millions of people off the electoral register this December - a year earlier than the advice of the independent Electoral Commission.

NO APOLOGY FOR THE IRAQ WAR Jeremy Corbyn ditched plans to issue a public apology for the Iraq War. Supporters hoped he would say sorry publicly for the 2003 invasion ordered by Tony Blair. But it was reportedly dropped after polling suggested it would not prove popular. Instead he told the conference hall: 'It didn't help our national security when we went to war with Iraq in defiance of the United Nations and on a false prospectus.' Advertisement

'It means two million or more people could lose their right to vote. It's more than 400,000 people in London. It's 70,000 people in Glasgow. Thousands in every town and city.

'That's overwhelmingly students, people in insecure accommodation and short stay private lets.

'We know why the Tories are doing it. They want to gerrymander next year's mayoral election in London by denying hundreds of thousands of Londoners their right to vote.

'They want to do the same for the Assembly elections in Wales. And they want to gerrymander electoral boundaries across the country by ensuring new constituencies are decided on the basis of the missing registers when the Boundary Commission starts its work in April 2016.'

Mr Corbyn set himself against carrying out airstrikes against ISIS, risking a revolt among his own frontbench

Mr Corbyn received a long standing ovation after calling for an end to personal abuse online - something his own supporters have been accused of

SELF-EMPLOYED SHOULD GET MATERNITY AND PATERNITY PAY Self-employed workers should get statutory maternity and paternity pay, Jeremy Corbyn said. The Labour leader questioned what the Conservatives were doing to help the millions of self-employed people and entrepreneurs. 'They're clobbering them with the tax credit cuts, and they are going to clobber them again harder as they bring in Universal Credit. So I want our policy review to tackle this in a really serious way. 'Labour created the welfare state as an expression of a caring society, but all too often that safety net is not there for the self-employed. It must be.' He called for statutory maternity and paternity pay to the self-employed to be considered, so all new-born children could get the same level of care from their parents. Advertisement

Mr Corbyn's public declaration of love for his country comes after controversy over his failure to sing the national anthem at a Battle of Britain commemoration.

But aides dismissed suggestions that the new leader's comments were intended to counter accusations he lacked patriotism. They insisted he was simply 'setting out his stall' to explain what kind of leader he will be.

Mr Corbyn said: 'As I travelled the country during the leadership campaign it was wonderful to see the diversity of all the people in the country.

'Even more inspiring was the unity and unanimity of their values - a belief in coming together to achieve more than we can on our own. Fair play for all, solidarity and not walking by on the other side of the street when people are in trouble. Respect for others' point of view.

'It is this sense of fair play, these shared majority British values, that are the fundamental reason why I love this country and its people.'

He adds: 'These values are what I was elected on: a kinder politics and a more caring society.

'They are Labour values and our country's values. We are going to put these values back into politics.

'It's because I am driven by these British majority values, because I love this country, that I want to rid it of injustice, to make it fairer, more decent, more equal.

'And I want all of our citizens to benefit from prosperity and success.'

Despite the threat of a shadow cabinet revolt, Mr Corbyn called for 'clever, patient, difficult diplomacy' to solve the crisis in Syria

Arriving at the Brighton Centre, Mr Corbyn has called for a 'kinder politics' and a 'caring society'

Supporters of the Labour leader have been posing with a cardboard cutout of Mr Corbyn outside the Grand Hotel in Brighton

Left to right: Sally Bercow, the wife of Commons Speaker John, is in Brighton for the conference. Former acting leader Harriet Harman, and shadow youth and voter engagement minister Gloria de Piero pictured right

MILIBAND, BROWN, BLAIR AND KINNOCK SNUB CORBYN'S SPEECH All four living former Labour leaders snubbed Jeremy Corbyn's first party conference address by refusing to turn up in Brighton today. Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and even Ed Miliband were missing for the set-piece speech. It is first time in living memory no former leader was present to show their support for the new leader. Mr Corbyn has repeatedly distanced himself from his predecessors - vowing to apologise for the Iraq war and even encourage far-left militants expelled in the 1980s to re-join the party. He also promised a far more radical programme, including opposition to any government cuts, the renewal of Trident and any involvement in airstrikes against ISIS. New Labour architects Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the last two leaders to make it into Number 10, are both working in the US. Mr Kinnock and his wife Glenys who haven't missed a conference in ten years were also absent, even though their son Stephen is now an MP. Ed Miliband, who is rumoured to be sympathetic to Mr Corbyn's policies, also stayed away Advertisement

To prolonged applause from delegates who rose to their feet, he concluded his speech by quoting 'the last bearded man to lead the Labour Party', Kier Hardie, who said his life's work consisted of 'trying to stir up a divine discontent with wrong'.

And he told activists: 'Don't accept injustice, stand up against prejudice.

'Let us build a kinder politics, a more caring society together. Let us put our values, the people's values back into politics.'

Union leaders hailed Jeremy Corbyn's first speech to Labour's annual conference as party leader, saying it would appeal to the wider public.

Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary, said: 'No whistles, no bells or flashing lights just straight forward fresh politics about truth, compassion, decency and justice. I think this will resonate with the public who have been disillusioned with Westminster politics.

Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union general secretary Mark Serwotka said: 'This was a speech of a real leader, someone who lives and breathes democracy and solidarity.

'Jeremy has brilliantly answered his critics, setting out a vision of a country where honesty and decency replace greed and conflict.

'We now have the opportunity to build a genuinely formidable opposition to Tory austerity inside and outside parliament.'

Len McCluskey, leader of Unite said it was an 'inspirational' speech which signalled a different type of politics.

'It was one of the best speeches I have heard at a Labour party conference for years.

'He has done enormous credit to politicians by bringing integrity back.

The warmth of the reception shows that people have been desperate for something different for a long time. We now have an opposition party.'

But Conservative Justice Secretary Michael Gove said: 'Labour have confirmed that they are a threat to our national security, our economic security and to the security of every family in Britain.

'The Labour leader's policies to borrow more, print money and put up taxes on people's jobs and incomes would wreck our economy. That would weaken our nation's defences, damage our NHS and hurt our country's working people - with the poorest hit the most.

'Only by continuing to build a stronger economy can we deliver strong defences for our country and stability, security and opportunity for working people.'

The omissions from Corbyn's speech which speak volumes about his politics

The Daily Mail's JAMES SLACK looks at the omissions from Jeremy Corbyn’s speech that speak volumes about his politics and priorities: THE DEFICIT There was the obligatory reference to ‘challenging austerity’ but not a word on the UK’s £90billion annual deficit and £1.6trillion of debt. No spending cuts were mentioned. He adopted the approach that money grows on trees – making an expensive promise to extend maternity and paternity pay to the self-employed. He pledged to protect the 40,000 jobs at risk from his policy to scrap Trident, with nothing on how it would be paid for. IMMIGRATION Lists of public concerns are consistently topped by immigration and many Labour MPs are convinced it led to voters deserting to Ukip in May. Mr Corbyn ignored it altogether – possibly as his views are so out of tune with traditional supporters. When Ed Miliband forgot to mention the deficit and migration in his speech last year, it was by mistake. For Mr Corbyn, it was very deliberate. Neither come close to being a priority for him. LABOUR’S ELECTORAL DEFEAT He praised Mr Miliband but ignored the fact his predecessor’s politics – so similar to his own – led the party to its worst defeat for a generation. There was no mention that the Tories won a fresh mandate four months ago. He did not acknowledge the need to speak to an audience outside the conference hall, with every sound-bite to win cheers from the activists who made him leader – not convert the swing voters who decide elections. LINKS TO TERROR GROUPS Mr Corbyn boasted of how he had been ‘standing up for human rights, challenging oppressive regimes for 30 years as a backbench MP’. He urged David Cameron to intervene in the case of a Saudi Arabian protester who is facing execution. There was no mention, however, of his support for Hamas or how he led calls for the brutal regime in Iran to be brought in from the cold. Iran – which, incredibly, showed his speech on state TV – executed 694 people between January and July 15, more than three a day. THE MISOGYNY OF HIS OWN SHADOW CHANCELLOR His call for ‘a kinder politics, a more caring society,’ won a standing ovation. He said: ‘So I say to all activists, whether Labour or not, cut out the personal attacks. The cyberbullying. And especially the misogynistic abuse online.’ It apparently slipped his mind that his closest ally, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, said of ex-Tory employment minister Esther McVey: ‘Why aren’t we lynching the b******?’ Corbyn’s backers are notorious for dishing out abuse to moderate Labour supporters on Twitter. Advertisement

Corbyn's copy and paste politics: Labour leader's first big conference speech lifts whole sections from obscure blog

Jeremy Corbyn was caught up in a humiliating plagiarism row tonight after it emerged large tracts of his speech were lifted word-for-word from an address drafted – and rejected – by Ed Miliband four years ago.

The veteran socialist dedicated large parts of his conference address to attacking the motives of the Tory party – accusing them of being out to protect the rich.

However, the attacks are almost identical to a speech written and published online four years ago by a blogger called Richard Heller written in 2011.

Jeremy Corbyn was caught up in a humiliating plagiarism row tonight after it emerged large tracts of his speech were lifted word-for-word from a blog

On his blog Mr Heller wrote extracts of a speech he believed Ed Miliband should deliver. Above the proposed address Mr Heller wrote: ‘Speaking passages offered to Ed Miliband, without reply.’

He adds that they are ‘available to others on application’.

A spokesman for Mr Corbyn tonight defended copying large tracts of the speech.

He said: ‘Heller was approached because JC thought some of his material captured what he wanted to say and he gave permission.’

Mr Heller later told the Guardian: I sent it to Team Corbyn as I have sent it to each and every Labour leader before him. I am very proud of that passage. I had no idea they were going to use it until today, but I am delighted that they have. It is a very fine passage. I sent it by post two weeks ago, to the leader of the opposition’s office.

'I offered it to him as Labour leader, because I felt it was a passage applicable to anyone with the values of the Labour party.

'I also published it on my website, probably about four years ago. It may look like they took it from there but that isn’t the case and to say it was stolen or plagiarised is nonsense.'

The similarities, first highlighted by the Spectator, include:

CORBYN: Since the dawn of history in virtually every human society there are some people who are given a great deal and many more people who are given little or nothing. Some people have property and power, class and capital, status and clout which are denied to the many.

HELLER: Since the dawn of history, in virtually every human society there are some people who are given a great deal and many more people who are given little or nothing. Some people have property and power, class and capital, status and even sanctity, which are denied to the multitude.

CORBYN: Time and time again, the people who receive a great deal tell the many to be grateful to be given anything at all. They say that the world cannot be changed and the many must accept the terms on which they are allowed to live in it.

HELLER: Time and time again, the people who receive a great deal tell the multitude to be grateful to be given anything at all. They say that the world cannot be changed and the multitude must accept the terms on which they are allowed to live in it.

CORBYN: The many with little or nothing are told they live in a global economy whose terms cannot be changed. They must accept the place assigned to them by competitive markets. By the way, isn’t it curious that globalisation always means low wages for poor people, but is used to justify massive payments to top chief executives.

Our Labour Party came into being to fight that attitude. That is still what our Labour Party is all about. Labour is the voice that says to the many, at home and abroad: “you don’t have to take what you’re given.”

HELLER: The multitudes with little or nothing are told that they live in a global economy whose terms cannot be changed: they must accept the place assigned to them by competitive markets.

The Labour Party came into being to fight that attitude. That is still what the Labour Party is all about. Labour is the voice that says to the multitude, at home and abroad: ‘you don’t have to take what you’re given.

CORBYN: You may be born poor but you don’t have to stay poor. You don’t have to live without power and without hope. You don’t have to set limits on your talent and your ambition – or those of your children.

You don’t have to accept prejudice and discrimination, or sickness or poverty, or destruction and war. You don’t have to be grateful to survive in a world made by others. No, you set the terms for the people in power over you, and you dismiss them when they fail you.”

That’s what democracy is about. That has always been our Labour Party’s message. You don’t have to take what you’re given.

The veteran socialist dedicated large parts of his conference address to attacking the motives of the Tory party – accusing them of being out to protect the rich

HELLER: Labour says: ‘You may be born poor but you don’t have to stay poor. You don’t have to live without power and without hope.

‘You don’t have to set limits on your talent and your ambition – or those of your children. You don’t have to accept prejudice and discrimination, or sickness or destitution, or destruction and war.

‘You don’t have to be grateful to survive in a world made by others. No, you set the terms for the people in power over you, and you dismiss them when they fail you.’

CORBYN: They’re at it again. The people who want you to take what you’re given. This Tory government. This government which was made by the few – and paid for by the few. Since becoming leader David Cameron has received £55 million in donations from hedge funds. From people who have a lot and want to keep it all. That is why this pre-paid government came into being. To protect the few and tell all the rest of us to accept what we’re given. To deliver the £145 million tax break they have given the hedge funds in return.

HELLER: They’re at it again. The people who want you to take what you’re given. This Tory-led government. This government which was made by the few – and paid by the few. Before the last election David Cameron’s received £x millions in donations from just y people. People to whom much had been given and who wanted to keep it. That is why this Tory-led government came into being. To protect the few and tell all the rest of us to accept what we’re given.

CORBYN: They want us to believe there is no alternative to cutting jobs. Slashing public services. Vandalising the NHS. Cutting junior doctor’s pay. Reducing care for the elderly. Destroying the hopes of young people for a college education or putting university graduates into massive debt. Putting half a million more children in poverty.

They want the people of Britain to accept all of these things. They expect millions of people to work harder and longer for a lower quality of life on lower wages. Well, they’re not having it. Our Labour Party says no. The British people never have to take what they are given.

HELLER: David Cameron and George Osborne want us to believe that there is no alternative to cutting jobs, slashing public services, vandalizing the NHS, attacking pensions, reducing care for the elderly. Destroying the hopes of young people for a college education – or a decent job afterwards if they do manage to get one. They want the British people to accept all of these things.