Jeremy Corbyn

Great first memory.

And it never stung me.

Never bit me.

Who are your parents?

Mum and Dad.

Dad was an electrical engineer.

Worked at that time for Westinghouse in Chippenham.

And later left there to go and work for English Electric in Stafford, which is why we moved to the Midlands.

Mum had done various jobs and eventually after I got a bit older went back into teaching and became a teacher, a secondary school teacher.

How did they meet?

They met in the 1930s.

They were both political in different areas and they met at a meeting in Conway Hall in Red Lion Square.

They were both there supporting the Spanish Republic against the fascist invasion.

And often when I go to meetings at Conway Hall, I say, I'm looking at you lot in the middle now and I'm looking over there.

And they say, why say that?

I said, my mum sat there and my dad sat there and their eyes met.

Well, they got together and then that was it.

So the romance of the solidarity Spanish Civil War.

So that was a huge motivating force for both of them in their lives, which was opposition to the fascists in Spain.

Well, fascists everywhere, obviously.