[90], At the 2017 local elections in May, Labour under Corbyn lost almost 400 councillors and control of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire county council. [554] Corbyn is an avid "drain spotter" and has photographed decorative drain and manhole covers throughout the country. '[78] This was because having two anti Corbyn candidates in the race could split the vote and give him a better chance of winning. Like many famous people and celebrities, Jeremy Corbyn keeps his personal life private. Jeremy Corbyn was born in 1940s. [552] He supports Arsenal F.C., based in his constituency, and has signed parliamentary motions praising the successes of the club's men's and women's teams. [16][17][18], When Corbyn was seven, the family moved to Pave Lane in Shropshire, where his father bought Yew Tree Manor, a 17th-century country house which was once part of the Duke of Sutherland's Lilleshall estate. ", "While Russia bans books, the useful idiot Corbyn swallows its lies whole", "Nato underwrites the stability of the EU. [204] Corbyn subsequently said that there had not been room for all his team to sit together until later on in the journey, when other passengers were upgraded by train staff. [134] Corbyn does not support the Private Finance Initiative. While there, Corbyn and other British parliamentarians attended a commemoration for victims of the 1985 Israeli air strikes on the PLO headquarters in Tunis. [67] After the United Kingdom voted on leaving the European Union, many Labour leaders wanted Corbyn to resign. [3] Ideologically, he identifies himself as a democratic socialist.[4][5]. [203] A dispute, nicknamed Traingate in the media, developed a week later when Virgin released CCTV images appearing to show that Corbyn had walked past some available seats on the train before recording his video. Also known as "boomers", are the result of the end of World War II, when birth rates across the world spiked. [162] The reshuffle prompted the resignations of three junior shadow ministers who were unhappy that Corbyn had sacked or moved shadow ministers who disagreed with his position on Syria and Trident. [60], He was a campaigner against apartheid in South Africa, serving on the National Executive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement,[61] and was arrested in 1984 while demonstrating outside South Africa House, leading, decades later, to a viral image of Corbyn being arrested circulated by supporters on social media. [510] It was later reported that the Labour Party's most senior lawyer had asserted that the report was deliberately misleading. [62] In the aftermath of the assassination, Corbyn described Cox as someone who was "dedicated to getting us to live up to our promises to support the developing world and strengthen human rights". [306], Corbyn has campaigned against private finance initiative schemes,[308] supported a higher rate of income tax for the wealthiest in society,[309] and his shadow chancellor proposed the introduction of a £10 per hour living wage. [242] The 2017 campaigns chief, Patrick Heneghan also stated that Corbyn's office had demanded he divert funds towards a list of Labour-held seats, some with majorities of over 10,000, to help MPs were considered allies of Corbyn, including Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett. [425], In 2016, after Corbyn released a video stating his "solidarity to stand with the Tamil community in the search for truth, justice, accountability and reconciliation", while the Labour Party reiterated its " full implementation of the UN Human Rights Councils resolution on Sri Lanka", some Tamil activists interpreted the video to be a signal of Jeremy Corbyn's "support for Tamil self-determination".