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|image = Official portrait of Jeremy Corbyn crop 2.jpg
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|caption = Corbyn in June 2017
|term_start = 12 September 2015
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|deputy1 = Tom Watson
|office1 = Leader of the Labour Party
|predecessor1 = Ed Miliband
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|residence = [[Finsbury Park, London|Finsbury Park]], [[North London]]<ref name="Islington">{{cite web|last=Cadwalladr|first=Carole|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/09/blair-corbyn-islington-north-london-labour|title=From Blair to Corbyn: the changing face of Islington, Labour’s London heartland|work=[[The Observer]]|date=9 August 2015|accessdate=9 May 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160903013255/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/09/blair-corbyn-islington-north-london-labour|archivedate=3 September 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Morris|first=James|url=http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/exclusive_jeremy_corbyn_promises_islington_will_not_be_forgotten_1_4235739|title=Jeremy Corbyn promises Islington 'will not be forgotten'|work=Islington Gazette|date=17 September 2015|accessdate=9 May 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006082628/http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/exclusive_jeremy_corbyn_promises_islington_will_not_be_forgotten_1_4235739|archivedate=6 October 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, born 26 May 1949 is a British politician serving as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983.
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Corbyn was educated at Castle House School, an independent preparatory school near Newport, Shropshire, before attending Adams' Grammar School as a day student. While still at school, he became active in The Wrekin constituency Young Socialists, his local Labour Party, and the League Against Cruel Sports. He achieved two E-grade A-Levels before leaving school at 18. Corbyn joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in 1966 whilst at school and later became one of its three vice-chairs.
 
After school,[14] Corbyn worked briefly as a reporter for a local newspaper, the Newport and Market Drayton Advertiser. At around the age of 19 he spent two years doing Voluntary Service Overseas in Jamaica as a youth worker and geography teacher.
 
==Early career and political activities==
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In 2013, Corbyn was awarded the Gandhi International Peace Award for his "consistent efforts over a 30-year parliamentary career to uphold the Gandhian values of social justice and non‐violence."
 
In December 2017 he was one of three recipients awarded the Seán MacBride Peace Prize "for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace".<
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