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

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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

#VoteLabour for a fairer society - Corbyn offers a real alternative to the austerity led Tory government. May won't be able to negotiate herself out of a paper bag - she's already alienating Europe and cosying up to Trump and the Saudis.

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

Are you just making stuff up and posting it or do you really not understand the policies?

The perils of travelling by public transport

Just caught up on the 'chat'.

What an utter, utter waste of time.

He had to answer the biscuit question

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

Exactly what piglet said.

he actually facilitated peace talks

No he really didn't.

Anyone who disagrees with JC gets antisemitic abuse. Whether or not they're Jewish. Equal opportunity abuse- that's the best I can say for them.

under the tories my school is going to lose 3 teachers. i'll go with corbyn, kids deserve and education and if that means i have to pay more corporation tax and 10 minimum wage fair enough.

Corbyn offers a real alternative to the austerity led Tory government

You mean he is going to give everyone free money to anesthetise us while he crashes the country and leaves someone else to sort out the mess.

He had to answer the biscuit question

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

This ^^ To be honest I'm surprised at the anger over "the biscuit thing" ... I'd have thought it was more generally known that avoiding something which matters in this way is the oldest political trick in the book

Well I was quite pleased he answered mine. The answer probably is in the manifesto but good to get it confirmed.

Are you just making stuff up and posting it or do you really not understand the policies? Of course I understand the policies. "May's team" are cutting education budgets (have a look how much your local schools will lose www.schoolcuts.org.uk/#!/ )and they aren't funding the NHS properly either.

www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/tory-manifesto-ifs-new-funding-nhs-or-schools-a7757181.html

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mental-health-figures-depression-anxiety-children-tory-government-theresa-may-pledge-end-stigma-a7517531.html

I admit to feeling let down, I'd like to know what questions he was actually given to choose from, no way was he sat there reading all of them.

He really didn't facilitate peace talks...

Does this train have even intermittent WiFi or mobile coverage? The thing with webchats is you do them on the go from, say, an iPad.

Even if mumsnethq couldn't spare someone, Labour must have a digital team they can use if he needed a bit of backup with the technology on the train.

If 20 minutes was all we were going to get, surely it could have been planned better? surely they should have taken longer to field questions or filter them down to the important ones, that was more like a Q&A for school kids, It didn't feel like there was any substance there.

Oh dear. On Sky/Channel 4 last night he made an ok fist of things, while May was clearly uncomfortable.

Today at Mumsnet he was inconsequential and in Woman's Hour he was cringe making. He did a Diane Abbott. It was embarrassing. He made the mistake of thinking women are easy meat and a bit head patting would do the trick. Wrong, Mr Corbyn.

Just because someone seems personable, speaks softly and sounds utterly reasonable doesn't mean they have the attributes to lead a country.

We see you Mr Corbyn (at least, a lot of us do).

I'm really surprised the Fail haven't picked this up yet.

He really didn't facilitate peace talks

Also, this^^

I think he didn't have much time as he had to dash off to Watford to present Labour's "Race and Faith" manifesto.

he did facillitate the peace talks he was asked by Mo Mowlem to go to places she wouldn't and on his and the advice of others Mo Mowlem went to H block which greatly helped her in her future negotiations.

hope everyone on here can afford private healthcare and education. if this is your attitude to the one person offering to ensure that we have free healthcare and education. i will vote labour for the me and my kids

So why should the taxpayer be finding 30hrs free childcare for two year olds if the parents aren't in work?

Perhaps the posters who had questions on antisemitism will find some answers to their queries in it.

well if parents want to study to retrain then childcare is appropriate. offering them childcare gives them an option and the childcare is not compulsory for the parent

Then perhaps JC himself could have referenced it when asked questions about something so important repeatedly?