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

He & his 'team' had advance knowledge of pages of questions angieC, it was entirely their choice which ones to answer - plenty to choose from.

He chose to waffle at length about biscuits & jam, to not answer but waffle around a couple of others & then picked one that specifically asked for a yes/no answer & couldn't even do that.

It was entirely his choice what questions he wanted to address - he chose instead to pat us good mummies on the head, talk about fucking jam and patronise us.

DH said that on the Jeremy Paxman interview last night, he thought JC said that the £10 wage will take people out of tax credits. Is this correct?

and which ones he chose to avoid. and this after already not taking women's hour seriously enough to prepare and failing to see women footballers. not at all like a pattern is writ large is it?

And on women's hour immediately equated women as being 'most interested in' childcare policies honeydragon, because that's all we 'do' isn't it?

angieC the manifesto has been costed by Diane Abbot!:))))))

personally, i think they had a right to ask if that is what they wanted to know

Well of course he would answer that question. Why would he try and answer more difficult ones that he has been shying away from for the past two years.

His childcare has been costed as well he doesn't have a clue how much will it cost!!!!

I don't understand why is ok for people to think that they should get benefits,health care,education all for free???are you insane??

No one's asked him about jam,AngieC, he volunteered that as a big part of the 9 questions he answered, because as women all we care about is jam.

You get what you pay for thats the rule!!!!

Justine thanks so much for clarifying, I am even more disappointed they confirmed they saw questions in advance.

I am voting Labour, for the first time ever, and JC is my main reason why. I expected to be impressed today, perhaps that's why it feels like such a let down, higher expectations than normal? He never usually seems like a question dodger like most politicians, nor does he play the mantra game.
I guess he's human and overbooked and is having a bad PR day, I hope the One show doesn't throw him later with talk of boys and girls jobs or whatever it is that show does.

Angie - May has spent the day in the West Midlands in labour marginal seats - it's on the news. She must fancy her chances there after Andy Street was elected as Mayor.

The childcare policy was the major policy he was presenting today.

He might have given it enough respect to actually know what was in it, surely.

I'm in the WI and I'm not as interested in bloody jam as JC seems to be.

4.8 billion for the childcare it has been costed. as for benefits we don't get them for nothing we pay for them with our taxes and NI so that if the worst were to happen we can claim and since it is highly unlikely every member of one family will claim or will have claimed it is taken as a community payment to support each other. actually, since this site is full of mums and most women will become mums childcare is an issue. may will probably once again be in a room with primed people and nowhere near a normal everyday person but hey if you think our children will do better under a tory govt that is continually cutting education, planning to privatise the NHS, putting up the costs of further education, not addressing the housing problems and issues then go for it, it's just a shame that we aren't all independently wealthy

i am a mum so you will excuse me if i go and think about childcare for a while

Universally free though, for two year olds? It's utter, utter bollocks.

Like the four new public holidays, it's an attempt at populism that simply will not work as a policy pledge - those that stand to benefit are in a minority, and the rest either don't care or think "wtf for?". Even among those who do stand to benefit as individuals there are plenty who can see that there are bigger fish to fry.

Bread and circuses springs to mind

He said on this thread the policy was £5.3 bn not £4.8 bn

I'm particularly disappointed in the new universal free childcare policy. 3&4 year olds was a stretch enough, but ratios for 2 year olds are 1:4 as opposed to 1:8 for 3 year olds. It's the first Labour policy I have genuine concerns about, and I've been a die hard leftie for life.

4.8 billion for the childcare it has been costed

Apart from the fact that isnt the figure he has given on here or in the manifesto.

AngieC why don't I get any benefits ame and my husband pay £50000 tax a year on top of that he is employed and his NIC a month is £500 plus his company pay another £500?????

Exactly, glitterglitters

Those policies are an insult, and demonstrate the contempt in which he holds us.

haidik because you don't bloody need them?! Is that a deliberately stupid question?