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Jeremy Corbyn received a hero's welcome from activists as he used his keynote speech at the party's conference in Bright to lay out Labour's vision for Britain. Jeremy Corbyn received a hero's welcome as he used his keynote speech at Labour's conference in Brighton to lay out his vision for Britain.
The leader said Labour was "ready for government" and promised to sweep away a "degraded" political system which led to the Grenfell Tower disaster. The Labour leader made a bold pitch for the centre ground, telling party members: "We are now the political mainstream."
He attacked the Conservatives' "rag tag" handling of Brexit and claimed cabinet ministers "spend more time negotiating with each other than with the European Union". In a rambling speech that covered a raft of different policy areas, Mr Corbyn spelled out a plan for Britain that proved popular with voters at the General Election.
He took to the stage minutes after his deputy, Tom Watson, suggested Labour could hold a second referendum on Brexit, saying: "We're not ruling it out." In a significant shift of tone, he said it was true that elections are usually won from the centre ground but added: "The political centre of gravity isn't moved or fixable, nor is is where the establishment pundits like to think it is.
"It shifts as people's expectations and experiences change and political space is opened up. Today's centre ground is certainly not where it was 20 or 30 years ago."
Declaring Labour "ready for government", Mr Corbyn promised to sweep away a "degraded" political system that he said had led to the Grenfell Tower disaster.
He took to the stage minutes after his deputy, Tom Watson, had suggested Labour could hold a second referendum on Brexit, saying: "We're not ruling it out."
While making no mention of that, Mr Corbyn attacked the Conservatives "shambolic" handling of Brexit and told Tory ministers: "Pull yourself together or make way".
Cabinet ministers "spend more time negotiating with each other than with the European Union", he added.
The Labour leader received a hero's welcome as he entered the hall to a three-minute standing ovation and spent much of his speech celebrating the party's better-than-expected showing in June's General Election.
He was cheered by a packed conference hall when he urged Theresa May to call another election. Mr Corbyn told the Prime Minister: "Take another walking holiday  and make another impetuous decision."
In a long section of foreign policy, the Labour leader also criticised Donald Trump, calling his speech to the UN "deeply disturbing" and his stance on climate change "alarming".
In a barely-veiled attack, Mr Corbyn said: "The values we share [with the US] are not served by building walls, banning immigrants on the basis of religion, polluting the planet, or pandering to racism."
Mr Corbyn also promised a series of bold policies on housing, reiterating that Labour would introduce rent controls, tax land that developers are sitting on and boost compulsory purchase powers.
He also criticised regeneration projects that "really mean forced gentrification and social cleansing" and promised: "No social cleansing, no jacking up rents, no exorbitant ground rents."
  
In his keynote speech, Mr Corbyn will accuse Government ministers of "bungling" Brexit talks and tell them to "pull yourselves together or make way" for Labour.
One of the Labour leader's closest shadow cabinet allies, Angela Rayner, earlier told Sky News that Mr Corbyn has shown he is "prime minister material" and would be able to "run Britain and run the economy better than Theresa May".
But a poll in The Times found that voters prefer Mrs May as PM by a margin of 37% to 29% over Mr Corbyn, even while Labour stretches its lead over the Tories to four points, on 43% to 39%.But a poll in The Times found that voters prefer Mrs May as PM by a margin of 37% to 29% over Mr Corbyn, even while Labour stretches its lead over the Tories to four points, on 43% to 39%.
Mr Corbyn, who earlier this week suggested he could be in 10 Downing Street for a decade, will use his speech to try to show that Labour is planning for the long term, setting out his intention to "manage" the introduction of new technologies in a way that ensured ordinary people would benefit in terms of more leisure time and higher wages.Mr Corbyn, who earlier this week suggested he could be in 10 Downing Street for a decade, will use his speech to try to show that Labour is planning for the long term, setting out his intention to "manage" the introduction of new technologies in a way that ensured ordinary people would benefit in terms of more leisure time and higher wages.
And he will reaffirm his commitment to providing free tuition in further education colleges to enable workers to retrain for the new jobs being created by automation and robotics, at an annual cost of £2.5 billion by the end of the next Parliament.And he will reaffirm his commitment to providing free tuition in further education colleges to enable workers to retrain for the new jobs being created by automation and robotics, at an annual cost of £2.5 billion by the end of the next Parliament.
Mr Corbyn will say that the Grenfell Tower fire in west London in June, which killed around 80 people, was a symbol of a "degraded" system of "rampant inequality, the hollowing out of our public services, the disdain for the powerless and the poor" which has held sway in the UK since the days of Margaret Thatcher.Mr Corbyn will say that the Grenfell Tower fire in west London in June, which killed around 80 people, was a symbol of a "degraded" system of "rampant inequality, the hollowing out of our public services, the disdain for the powerless and the poor" which has held sway in the UK since the days of Margaret Thatcher.
The blaze was not just "the result of bad political decisions" but stood for "a failed and broken system, which Labour must and will replace", Mr Corbyn will say.The blaze was not just "the result of bad political decisions" but stood for "a failed and broken system, which Labour must and will replace", Mr Corbyn will say.
And he will say that Labour is now a government-in-waiting whose policies represent a "new common sense" shared by the mainstream of British people.And he will say that Labour is now a government-in-waiting whose policies represent a "new common sense" shared by the mainstream of British people.