Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn has been the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983.

In September 2015 he overwhelmingly won the Labour leadership contest and was appointed party leader.

Support for a ban on fracking

In July 2019 Corbyn visited campaigners protesting outside Cuadrilla’s shale gas site near Blackpool and repeated his call for the government and incoming PM Boris Johnson) to ban fracking:

“We need urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, and that means the prime minister immediately banning fracking once and for all.

“Instead of bending the knee to a few corporations who profit from extracting fossil fuels from the ground, we need to change course now. It’s the next generation and the world’s poorest who will pay the price if this Conservative government continues to put the interests of a few polluters ahead of people.”

Corbyn told campaigners that:

Labour leadership contest 2015

In June 2015 Corbyn announced he would stand as a candidate to succeed Ed Miliband as the leader of the Labour Party, and would do so on a 'clear anti-austerity platform'.

Team

• Simon Fletcher, campaign director. Fletcher has worked a number of key Labour figures including; Ken Livingstone for twelve years, including eight years as his chief of staff when he was Mayor of London; Tony Benn and is believed to have been a member of Socialist Action; and Ed Miliband, as his trade union liaison officer. He will work for Corbyn out of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association Union offices in London.
• Kat Fletcher, agent. Was elected president of the National Union of Students in 2004, after running on an anti-tuition fees ticket and defeating the Labour Students candidate. Fletcher then worked at the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, as Ed Miliband's head of volunteers in his Labour leadership campaign in 2010 and as Corbyn's agent in the 2015 general election. She has been a councillor since 2013 and is currently deputy mayor on Islington council and runs small London pub company Handmade Pubs.
• Jon Trickett, adviser. MP for Hemsworth since 1996 and the current Labour Party deputy chairman, Tricket was one of the first MPs to back Corbyn. As an MP Trickett has worked as a PPS to Peter Mandelson and was a key ally of Ed Miliband, serving as his shadow minister without a portfolio and worked with him on speeches and policy announcements.
• Harry Fletcher, volunteer. Was assistant general secretary of trade union NAPO for over twenty years until 2013. Founder of Digital Trust, a not-for-profit group aiming to tackle digital abuse.
• Len McCluskey. The general secretary of Unite, Britain's biggest trade union and Labour's biggest donor.

Parliamentary staff

• Janet Chapman
• Katy Clark
• Neale Coleman - Policy director, Labour Party
• Stephanie Driver - Head of events, Labour Party *
• Andrew Fisher - Political adviser
• Kat Fletcher - Researcher
• Simon Fletcher - Chief of staff
• Billie Heath
• Joss MacDonald - Diary and correspondence administrator, overseas visit to Israel and West Bank 11-15 November, funded by Fateh UK
• Anneliese Midgley
• Seamus Milne
• James Murray - Housing policy adviser, Executive member of London Borough of Islington
• Nicolette Petersen
• Nancy Platts
• Jack Reardon Bond
• Gavin Sibthorpe - Events officer/researcher
• Joshua Simons
• Kevin Slocombe - Media and spokesperson services for Labour Party
• William Smith - Political assistant | Niall Sookoo | Ayse Vali - Diary manager
• Angie Williams - Office administrator