How come he is 'SO' right on the money? The opposition has done everything he recommended and they themselves campaigned against, there is no magic money tree they screamed.
There is no understanding UK politics at the minute.
Coronavirus: Jeremy Corbyn says he was proved 'right' on public spending - BBC News
There is no understanding UK politics at the minute.
Jeremy Corbyn says the government's response to coronavirus proves he was "absolutely right" about public spending at the 2019 general election.
The Labour leader told the BBC he had been "denounced as somebody that wanted to spend more money than we could possibly afford" to fix social wrongs.
But he said he had been vindicated by the vast sums the government was spending on the current crisis.
The Tories now realised they had to "invest in the state", he added.
In an interview with BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Corbyn said that the country had been "ill-prepared" for the coronavirus pandemic because of "10 years of austerity, of underfunding the National Health Service and underfunding our benefit system".
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He said the government had been "shocked" by the national emergency, as their "instincts" were for "free market economics and the small state".
"They've now suddenly realised that they have to spend money to invest in the state, as we have always said as a party, and they have come around to a lot of that position."
'We need everybody'
Mr Corbyn said the government had also failed to realise how many people were in "insecure" employment in the UK when they drew up their response to the emergency.
But he believed that the pandemic had changed the political landscape forever.
"I think our society and our politics will never be the same again, because we have suddenly realised as a society and a community, we need everybody - and everybody has a contribution to make."
Mr Corbyn has just over a week to go as Labour leader, after four-and-half years in the job.
The result of the contest to replace him - between Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy - will be announced on Saturday, 4 April.
The Labour leader told the BBC he had been "denounced as somebody that wanted to spend more money than we could possibly afford" to fix social wrongs.
But he said he had been vindicated by the vast sums the government was spending on the current crisis.
The Tories now realised they had to "invest in the state", he added.
In an interview with BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Corbyn said that the country had been "ill-prepared" for the coronavirus pandemic because of "10 years of austerity, of underfunding the National Health Service and underfunding our benefit system".
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He said the government had been "shocked" by the national emergency, as their "instincts" were for "free market economics and the small state".
"They've now suddenly realised that they have to spend money to invest in the state, as we have always said as a party, and they have come around to a lot of that position."
'We need everybody'
Mr Corbyn said the government had also failed to realise how many people were in "insecure" employment in the UK when they drew up their response to the emergency.
But he believed that the pandemic had changed the political landscape forever.
"I think our society and our politics will never be the same again, because we have suddenly realised as a society and a community, we need everybody - and everybody has a contribution to make."
Mr Corbyn has just over a week to go as Labour leader, after four-and-half years in the job.
The result of the contest to replace him - between Sir Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy - will be announced on Saturday, 4 April.
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