Jeremy Corbyn will tell David Cameron today “a fuse has been lit” and say he will use the “surge” of new grassroots Labour support to oppose the Tory austerity programme.
The strong favourite to win Labour’s leadership contest, which ends in a little over a fortnight’s time, makes clear he would instruct his party to “use every conceivable parliamentary device” to frustrate the government. “A fuse has been lit and a new kind of more inclusive, less personalised politics has been let out of the bottle,” Mr Corbyn writes in The Times today.
The hard-left candidate insists that Labour conceded “the economic narrative to George Osborne” in the past five years. “Austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity,” he claims as he takes on the charge that he will take Labour out of mainstream politics.
“What is extreme is not the popular proposals we are putting forward” but the government’s attempt to make the poorest pay for the crisis, he says.