Webchat with Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, Tuesday 30 May at midday

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Hello,

We’re pleased to announce a webchat with the leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday 30 May at midday.

Jeremy has been MP for Islington North since 1983, and has been Labour leader since 2015, having been re-elected when Owen Smith stood against him in 2016. Labour’s manifesto for the election on June 8 proposes ‘a Brexit deal that puts our economy and living standards first’, tax rises for the top 5% of earners, the renationalisation of the railways, free school meals for all primary pupils, the abolition of university tuition fees, and a £250 billion investment fund for infrastructure and the economy.

Please do join the chat on Tuesday at midday, or if you can’t make it, leave a question here in advance. Please do share the webchat on social - the more, the merrier!

As always, please remember our webchat guidelines - one question each, follow-ups if there’s time and please keep it civil .

(As we approach the General Election we will endeavour to offer you a balanced diet of webchats with politicians from different parties. More announcements coming soon.)

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MNHQ

The 30 hours free childcare is for all 2 year olds not just those on certain benefits.

I was very, very interested in this Webchat. As a floating voter I've been absolutely stumped who to vote for. I dislike May AND Corbyn but it seems that it will be one of those who get in no matter who I vote for. I felt that given Corbyns popularity perhaps there was something I was missing as was keeping an open mind about this webchat desperately hoping he'd change my mind ... he didn't. I now dislike him even more and have decided to spoil my vote. Never been so disheartened about an election in my life.

ok I don't know what's worse, how
dire that was, or how people are defending it! It was bloody awful! You can't hand on heart say that showed Corbyn in a good light surely?

Why is that no Government can see no further than 2 years olds. When it comes to childcare.

You vote for the candidate that best represents your views in your local constituency. You only vote for Corbyn/May if you live in their constituency!

I think he's going to get slaughtered in the press. Woman's hour then this farce.

Yes!!

Let's all base the entire future of this country on this 20 minute web chat!!!!

Exactly gluteustothemaximus. I prefer to vote on policies!

If you don't want webchat guests answering puerile questions about biscuits, then don't ask them. The biscuit thing, as others have said, never was funny in the first place, never mind 7 years on.

And the Telegraph tearing him a new one? Whoever would have thought it! Some of you lot are really very naive.

If you don't want webchat guests answering puerile questions about biscuits, then don't ask them

He had four hundred non puerile questions to answer. Simply because one user chose to ask this doesn't mean he had to answer it, and let's be honest pretty much answer pretty much only this.

Why are you trying to blame the members for this? It's offensive the way he behaved.

But Vintage. He didn't have waste precious time chatting shit about biscuits. No one was forcing him to answer.

Gluteus- quite. But we get this every election. Senior politicians, 9 days before the most important day in their careers (and I'm talking about all of them who bother to come- including David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Gordon Brown etc) give an hour or so out of their schedule to come and......talk about what fucking biscuit they like.

Is there any wonder Mners are treated like mammy-housewives by the press?

They always answer the ruddy biscuit question, it seems to be the law. FFS if he didn't you'd all be up in arms saying mumsnet question not good enough for Corbyn.

I wouldn't vote for him on his policies either. Do you all have such short memories that you can't see that Labour had just proposed a return to the 70s? Re-nationalising industries! Yeah. That went well the first time, didn't it. Doh!
The UK does need to become a corporate tax haven because, sorry to introduce ya know ECONOMICS, companies are already starting to move to the continent after Brexit and will continue to do so unless we induce them to stay .

Let's just think for a nanosecond, shall we....he has 20 minutes.

Does he

a) sit and read the questions carefully and then answer the ones he thinks are important?

b) answer the ones he is fielded by HQ?

Just sayin'.

Or have some awareness of what is important

I am sure May will do a much better job on here. She's coming on, right? never shy of speaking to people who don't agree with her....

He had to answer the biscuit question

Well yes if you want to avoid questions about anti semitism, housing, NHS....

I can see why he may want to avoid questions about anti semitism considering the anti-Semetic abuse some of his supporters have given Emma Barnet after her interview this morning.

Vintage, really, you're blaming mumsnet?

There were many well thought out questions, covering a variety of issues which I haven't yet seen Corbyn address.

So the country is now so rich it can give everyone free everything. The latest bribe being free child care for the richest. Who aren't going to use it because the state is crap at running everything. Why, just why? What is the difference between communism and Jeremy Corbyn?

Or did MN field the questions? Seriously though he's not shy of answering hard hitting questions. I'm sure you've noticed him being harangued by the press regarding his supposed IRA sympathies (he actually facilitated peace talks) and last night with Paxo barking questions.

he actually facilitated peace talks

Did he?

I feel like he has just come in , given us a pat on the head and ran off again

Waste
Of
Time

May wants to take us back to the 1870s by slashing education budgets and making us pay for healthcare.