THE frontrunner in the fight to beome Labour’s new UK leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is due to arrive in Scotland tomorrow for a two day tour.
He will address his first rally in Aberdeen in the early afternoon, before heading to Dundee to speak to people at the Dalhousie Building that evening.
On Friday afternoon he will speak to Labour members and supporters at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, before heading to Glasgow, where he will address a meeting at the city’s Old Fruitmarket.
He was originally due to speak on Friday evening at the 300-seat Oran Mor in the west end of Glasgow, but organisers were forced to find a larger venue after the hall was booked out within hours of his visit being announced. The larger venue is now booked out too.
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