The man upon whom the hopes of young men and women in Britain rest
enjoys taking pictures of drain covers and making jam. He wears baggy
blazers and, when necessary, smuggles English cheese into his Mexican
vacation lodgings. In other words, he leads the averagely eccentric
lifestyle of your standard British retiree.
Except that Jeremy Corbyn, 69, has his sights set on becoming the
next prime minister of the United Kingdom. Ever since the man from the
London borough of Islington became the surprise Labour leader in 2015,
the party has been experiencing an unprecedented boom. Not unlike Bernie
Sanders in the United States, Corbyn's decidedly socialist and pacifist
positions have been received enthusiastically by mostly young voters.
With its 540,000 members,
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