Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949, Wiltshire) is a British Member of Parliament for Islington North. May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Islington North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

He is a member of the Labour Party and has been in the House of Commons since 1983. An old boy of Adams' Grammar School in Shropshire, he is a left-wing member of the Labour Party and is in the Socialist Campaign Group. He has a column in The Morning Star. A long-time supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, he sits on its National Council. He is an elected member of the Stop the War Coalition steering committee. The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and is now the dominant branch of Parliament. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Adams Grammar School is a state grammar school in Newport, Shropshire. ... Shropshire (abbreviated Salop or Shrops) is a traditional, ceremonial and administrative county in the West Midlands region of England. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... The Socialist Campaign Group is a left wing grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the UK. The group is generally Eurosceptic and has many socially conservative members. ... For other uses, see Morning Star. ... CND logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ... The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) (informally just Stop the War) is a UK anti-war group set up on 21 September 2001. ...

He famously divorced his wife due to irreconcilable differences about sending their children to selective schools, although they still live in the same house.

He is one of the signatories to Tony Banks' "Pigeon Bombs" Early Day Motionand Michael Meacher's Climate Change EDM. Anthony Louis Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (born 8 April 1943) is a British politician and Labour Party member of the House of Lords. ...

He was fiercely opposed to the War in Iraq and has spoken at many anti-war rallies in the UK and abroad.

External links

• ePolitix - Jeremy Corbyn MP official site
• Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Jeremy Corbyn MP
• TheyWorkForYou.com - Jeremy Corbyn MP
• The Public Whip - Jeremy Corbyn MP voting record
• BBC News - Jeremy Corbyn profile 8 March, 2005
• The Big Ask More about the Climate Change EDM