Gyles Brandreth

He was then a Labour Member of Parliament.

His name is Jeremy Corbyn.

He's been the MP in the United Kingdom for the constituency of Islington North since 1983.

He's still an MP, but currently he's an independent.

He's the parliamentary leader of a new party that he has jointly formed called Your Party.

But in this country, he's best known for having been the leader of the Labour Party, for having been the leader of the opposition, for having fought two general elections.

neither of which he won, but certainly in one of them he came not far off winning.

He's a very interesting person, and I think this is a very interesting conversation we are about to have.

So our May Day guest today is Jeremy Corbyn, MP.

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This is May Day.

I'm Giles Brandreth and with me is Jeremy Corbyn.

And I wanted Jeremy to have you as a guest today because May Day, well, May Day probably is an important day to you.

And I feel when I was being brought up, May Day was a major international day.

And what is the origin of May Day?

As in dancing around the maypole?

Have you ever been on a march that you really felt, in retrospect, was worthwhile?

In the 60s, during my gap year, I was in America and I went on an anti-Vietnam War march.

And there were millions of us.

And I felt, I was a teenager, I felt maybe we are making a difference because people can see there are millions of us here.