Jeremy Corbyn
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Corbyn MP is our guest on this May Day morning. Now an independent MP and the leader of Your Party, Jeremy has been in Westminster for 43 years - for 41 of those as a Labour MP. He was leader of Labour Party from 2015 to 2020, and fought two general elections in 2017 and 2019. He talks about this to Gyles in this episode, and about the bitter divisions and recriminations that followed the final defeat. He also talks about his childhood, growing up in Wiltshire and Shropshire, with free-thinking parents who encouraged him to make things and gave him a lot of freedom. He talks about being an academic under-achiever, his formative experiences with VSO in Jamaica as a teenager, and travelling in revolutionary South America. He talks about being awkward, his love of reading, and his continuing commitment to making the world a better place. Whatever your politics, we hope you find this an inspiring, interesting and illuminating listen with one of the longest-standing and most committed of our politicians.
With our thanks to Jeremy Corbyn for his time, energy and conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. |
| 0:03.2 | There's a new guest waiting, with quite a lot to say. |
| 0:06.5 | So I'm going to shut up and say welcome to another episode of Rosebud. |
| 0:11.2 | We do indeed have a very special guest for you. |
| 0:14.1 | Cue the music. They're ready. Welcome to another episode of Rosebud. |
| 0:38.7 | Thank you so much for being there. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm here. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Giles Brandreth. |
| 0:43.3 | And today, if you're listening to this in real time, is the 1st of May, 2026. |
| 0:49.0 | It's May Day. |
| 0:50.4 | May Day. |
| 0:51.6 | That is the international distress signal, but it's also a day of festival, a |
| 0:56.3 | celebratory day, a political day. It is May Day. May Day for many people is a celebration |
| 1:01.9 | of spring, but it's also an important day among socialists because it is a celebration of |
| 1:07.7 | workers' rights and has been for many years. And I thought this May Day, |
| 1:12.9 | I'd like on Rosebud, to have a true socialist to be our special guest. And I found one. |
| 1:20.1 | Somebody I know, I was a member of Parliament once upon a time. I was a Conservative Member |
| 1:23.8 | of Parliament. He was then a Labour Member of Parliament. His name is Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 1:28.9 | He's been the MP in the United Kingdom for the constituency of Islington North since 1983. |
| 1:36.3 | He's still an MP, but currently he's an independent. He's the parliamentary leader of a new party |
| 1:41.8 | that he has jointly formed called Your party. But in this country, |
| 1:46.4 | he's best known for having been the leader of the Labour Party, for having been the leader of |
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