UK’s Labour Party stung by early leak of election platform

“Proud and patriotic working-class people in towns and cities across Britain have not deserted the Labour Party – Jeremy Corbyn has deserted them”, she is expected to say.

Corbyn pulled out of a campaign appearance Thursday morning after the leak.

Leaked drafts of the manifesto also reveal Jeremy Corbyn is committed to achieving a “nuclear-free world” and “extremely cautious” about using Britain’s nuclear deterrent.

But the problem for the Labour leader is credibility.

In a video broadcast on the BBC and ITV, the TV and stage star said: “The choice at this General Election could not be clearer”.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

“We’ll be setting out in our manifesto a plan for the future – negotiating a successful Brexit from the European Union and building a stronger, fairer Britain with the stable leadership that Theresa May offers”.

The British electorate will vote in a general election on June 8. His personal approval ratings are -32% compared to May’s +13%, according to the latest survey by Opinium.

The cameraman was hurt as Mr Corbyn’s auto drove in through a side entrance to the building in Savoy Place while much of the media was waiting on the street outside the front entrance.

He suggested on Twitter that “the whole manifesto has been leaked by Labour HQ”. “We have amended a draft document that was put forward”, he said. The Conservative Party, which May heads, has yet to release its draft, but May has thus far unveiled plans to end bans on fox hunting and the creation of new grammar schools-making the contrast with the Labour Party’s sweeping vision all too stark.

The Royal Mail would be renationalised, as well as rail companies. Some 45% of those aged 18 to 24 say he would be the best Brexit negotiator compared to 41% backing May.

Jeremy Corbyn would increase income taxes only for those earning more than £80,000.

He said the final version will be published “in the next few days” and will lay out the “costings of all the pledges and promises that we make”.

But it was mocked by Conservative supporters for echoing Labour’s left-wing 1983 election manifesto, described at the time by one Labour lawmaker as “the longest suicide note in history” for helping the Conservatives to victory.

The Conservatives were not the only ones to deride the leaked manifesto.

A leak on Thursday of Labour’s draft manifesto featured on many of Friday’s newspaper front pages, with the Sun describing it as “Labour’s day of disasters” after a auto carrying Corbyn ran over a BBC cameraman’s foot.

The party now has a chance to tweak the manifesto before its official launch next week, when the public can take another look at its policies.