Title: Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership contest and vows 'fightback' - BBC News
Headings: Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership contest and vows 'fightback'
Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership contest and vows 'fightback'
Jeremy Corbyn has promised to lead a Labour "fightback" after being elected the party's new leader by a landslide.
'Jez we did'
His first act as leader was to attend a "refugees welcome here" rally, joining tens of thousands of people marching through central London in support of the rights of refugees.
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Content: All those issues have brought people in, in a spirit of hope and optimism." He said his campaign had given the lie to claims that young Britons were apathetic about politics, showing instead that they were "a very political generation that were turned off by the way in which politics was being conducted - we have to, and must, change that". media caption
In his one of his first speeches since being elected Labour leader on Saturday, Jeremy Corbyn addresses a rally about rights for refugees
Mr Corbyn added: " The fightback now of our party gathers speed and gathers pace." His first act as leader was to attend a "refugees welcome here" rally, joining tens of thousands of people marching through central London in support of the rights of refugees. Addressing cheering crowds in Parliament Square, he delivered an impassioned plea to the government to recognise its legal obligations to refugees from Syria and elsewhere and to find "peaceful solutions to the world's problems". "Open your your hearts. open your minds, open your attitude to suffering people, who are desperate and who are in need of somewhere safe to live," added the new Labour leader. Singer Billy Bragg then led the crowd in a rendition of socialist anthem The Red Flag. Mr Corbyn earlier told supporters his first day at the helm of his party in Parliament would be spent opposing government plans to "shackle" trade unions by imposing higher thresholds for strike ballots.