LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has ruled out forming a pact with any other party in an upcoming General Election.
The assertion came at Unite conference in Ayr, which Corbyn attended yesterday after campaigning in the marginal seats Motherwell and Wishaw, and Inverclyde on Saturday.
The Labour leader said: “After a General Election, we will have either a Tory prime minister or a Labour prime minister, there’s no other option available.
“I’m going in to fight that election whenever it comes, this year, whenever, I’ll be ready for it. There will be no pacts with any other party, we are fighting that election to win it in every part of the UK.”
Corbyn insisted he would be “very happy” to fight a General Election once the threat of a No-Deal Brexit is off the table, saying that leaving the EU without a deal would do “enormous damage”.
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He also said that a Labour government would give people a final say on Brexit: “A No-Deal crash-out would be a disaster, we would instead negotiate a credible option with the EU and put that to the people to make the final decision and we would abide by the results of that final decision.”
Corbyn pledged that a his government, if elected at the next General Election, would invest more than £70 billion in Scotland over the first decade of its administration.
He said: “That is not an abstract number, it’s an economic transformation that will help revive communities across Scotland, rebuild the NHS, schools, colleges and council services, upgrade the crumbling infrastructure and revive Scottish industry by creating skilled jobs, particularly through our green industrial revolution.”
The Labour leader insisted Labour will “take on the wealthy and powerful” and “deliver the investment that Scotland needs and build a fairer, more equal and just society”.
He added: “Labour will not shy away from taking on the wealthy and the powerful, the vested interests that are holding people back, we will put wealth and power back in the hands of the many, we have I think a once in a generation chance to rebuild and transform our country so that no-one is held back and no community left behind.”
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