Jeremy Corbyn, the new Labour leader, criticised austerity and urged Europe to do more for refugees in his victory speech.
The hard-left politician won by a landslide 59 percent in a party vote on Saturday (12 September).
He replaces Ed Miliband, a centrist, who stepped down after losing national elections to the centre-right Tory party in May.
Corbyn told the Labour conference the Tories “used” the 2008 financial crisis “to impose a terrible burden on the poorest people ...
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