Jeremy Corbyn was a little lone MP for most of his political career, he's been in Parliament

since 1983. But then in 2015 he found himself projected the forefront of the national conversation

as he became leader of the Labour Party, leader of the opposition. Having started the leadership

race that summer as a 200-1 outsider. He contested two general elections in 2017 and 2019,

the first resulted in a shock on Parliament, and of course in 2019 the Tories and the Boris

Johnson won a majority of more than 70. It was a crushing defeat for Labour.

It's been several years since then however, so we thought at Navarra Media it was time to catch

up with Jeremy Corbyn to see how he's doing his thoughts on all manner of things from the cost

of living crisis to his successor here, Starmer and the future of the Labour movement in the United Kingdom.

You could have been in the spotlight a week ago because of those the accession of

King Charles, the accession council and whatnot. You weren't there along with Joe Swinson,

there were former leaders who weren't there. Was that just because you didn't feel like you

should be taking part? I just didn't go. Do you sort of feel that you maybe could have gone to

sort of make a statement that you were a former party leader or was it just didn't fancy at all?

I didn't see the need to be there. I was kind of surprised actually that former party leaders go.

I understand former Prime Ministers, but I was kind of surprised that like Joe Swinson, Tim Farron

and whatnot were there. Every living Labour leader there was there, wasn't they, apart from

himself, obviously. Emila Banner was there, so it wasn't just. No one had been quite an

impressive statement though. Somebody was your political commitments in the room with those guys,

you don't think so? I didn't go. Would you think of the Queen you met her? You said quite charming

things about her online. I think you have to separate the person from the position. I remember

once at a meeting years ago, some people started going on about the Queen and Tony Ben said,

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