Corbyn defends using speech passage written in 1980s

The new left-wing leader of the opposition Labour Party on Wednesday defended using sections of a speech written in the 1980s that were rejected by five of his predecessors. Jeremy Corbyn used his first Labour conference speech as leader on Tuesday to accuse the government of favouring the rich, and to promise a new, kinder politics. The decision to include the passage will provide ammunition for Corbyn's critics, who have mocked him for what they say is a return to Labour's hard-left heyday in