LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at the right wing leaders proving more popular than his own across Europe - from Nigel Farage to Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen.
Mr Corbyn told an audience in the Czech Republic that the leaders' success was "alarming" and was making it difficult for his own message to get through.
He said: “It’s clear that there’s an alarming rise and acceleration of the populist right all across this continent. Be it Ukip in my country, in Britain, Donald Trump and the language he used in the presidential election in the United States or what’s happening in Hungary with Jobbik or Marine Le Pen in France with her National Front - politics has been shaken across the world."
He added: "We know why the populist right is gaining ground and it’s increasingly hard to get our message heard. It’s up to us to offer a real political alternative. But we have to analyse what the situation is at present."
The embattled leader suffered a crushing defeat in the Richmond by election, with the Lib Dems claiming the seat, while his party remains divided.
Jeremy Corbyn has also claimed his party will put down an official amendment to the Article 50 bill in the House of Commons in a bid to halt the Brexit process, against the will of the British people.
Mr Corbyn justified his political stance, saying: "The gap between the rich and poor is widening. Living standards are stagnating or falling. Insecurity is growing. Many people feel left behind by the forces unleashed by globalisation. They feel powerless in the face of de-regulated corporate power.”
During his visit to the former Soviet nation the Labour Party leader will also visit a Holocaust memorial museum and assert that the left must fight fascism.
Mr Corbyn told an audience in the Czech Republic that the leaders' success was "alarming" and was making it difficult for his own message to get through.
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| Mr Corbyn said the rise of leaders like Donald Trump is alarming |
He said: “It’s clear that there’s an alarming rise and acceleration of the populist right all across this continent. Be it Ukip in my country, in Britain, Donald Trump and the language he used in the presidential election in the United States or what’s happening in Hungary with Jobbik or Marine Le Pen in France with her National Front - politics has been shaken across the world."
He added: "We know why the populist right is gaining ground and it’s increasingly hard to get our message heard. It’s up to us to offer a real political alternative. But we have to analyse what the situation is at present."
The embattled leader suffered a crushing defeat in the Richmond by election, with the Lib Dems claiming the seat, while his party remains divided.
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| Gábor Vona is the Hungarian leader of the Jobbik party which Mr Corbyn also laid into |
Jeremy Corbyn has also claimed his party will put down an official amendment to the Article 50 bill in the House of Commons in a bid to halt the Brexit process, against the will of the British people.
Mr Corbyn justified his political stance, saying: "The gap between the rich and poor is widening. Living standards are stagnating or falling. Insecurity is growing. Many people feel left behind by the forces unleashed by globalisation. They feel powerless in the face of de-regulated corporate power.”
During his visit to the former Soviet nation the Labour Party leader will also visit a Holocaust memorial museum and assert that the left must fight fascism.
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