Will Jeremy Corbyn Defy The Odds: I Went To Islington North And Found A Major Battle
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
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A lot of people presume it's in the bag for Jeremy Corbyn in the seat he's represented for four decades - but there's actual huge challenges in the way. Here's what I found talking to the former Labour leader and his constituents.
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| 0:00.0 | Jeremy Corbyn, former Labour leader and the former Labour MP for |
| 0:16.6 | this seat is Lincoln North for over four decades, but his old party beat him out. |
| 0:22.0 | Kiastarma, the Labour leader, campaigned on a platform of being |
| 0:25.5 | Corbyn's friend, of carrying on his domestic policies, well all that went out the window of course. |
| 0:30.4 | Now a lot of people think Corbyn surely will will walk it here in Lismton North |
| 0:34.0 | he's very well regarded as a constituency MP even when people don't agree with him. |
| 0:39.0 | I think that's a mistake. I think there's a lot of complacency. |
| 0:42.0 | Islington where we are here has a massive |
| 0:44.4 | turnover of people so that is people moving in and out. Lots of people don't |
| 0:49.2 | know what constituency they're in let alone who the local MP is. There's the fact that the |
| 0:54.6 | Labour Party has data of where people are and who they're voting for. An |
| 1:00.0 | independent campaign starts from scratch and that's a problem because you've got to identify your |
| 1:03.1 | voters to get them to come out and vote for you on polling day. |
| 1:06.7 | How are people who have voted Lib Dem in the past going to vote? |
| 1:09.0 | Well a lot of them might just go over to labour. |
| 1:11.7 | There's also the problem that people often turn up to vote for a party and |
| 1:14.8 | there's this idea been spread including I think by the Labor Party that is |
| 1:19.7 | either you vote labor you get Tories that's not true here I've just gone to use some of |
| 1:23.8 | the challenges there's a lot of obstacles there so I want to go and speak to his |
| 1:27.4 | campaign I want to speak to him as well I want to speak to |
| 1:30.9 | voters on the streets I want to see what the general vibe and the general mood is. |
| 1:36.4 | But I don't think it's automatically the bag for Jamie Corbyn at all. |
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