In recent weeks Labour MPs have been asking when Jeremy Corbyn will make a speech defining his leadership and his policy agenda. Some have been surprised that greater efforts have not been made to draw the media’s focus away from process and split stories.
At tomorrow’s Eastern region Labour conference, Corbyn will seek to address such concerns, delivering a speech setting out “where his leadership has come from” and where he wants “this movement Labour has launched to go, what we want to achieve and what our vision for Britain is all about”. By far the most striking section is on patriotism. In a rebuke to David Cameron, who labelled him a “security threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating” at the Conservative conference, Corbyn will ask: “What’s pro-British about a government that slashes support for serving soldiers and military veterans? How is it patriotic to take money from the poorest, from working families, and hand control of your country to a super-rich elite? Labour will take no lectures in patriotism from the Conservatives, the political wing of the hedge-funds, the bankers and the 1 per cent elite.
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