Jeremy Corbyn has announced plans to continue to as Labour leader, whatever the result of the general election.
Corbyn told Buzzfeed that he had no plans to step down – even if Labour suffer a landslide loss.
“I was elected leader of this party and I’ll stay leader of this party,” he told Buzzfeed news on Monday.
The Labour leader made clear that he was “serious about winning the election” and insisted that the poll ratings and criticism was not getting to him.
The Labour party’s manifesto will be released next week and Corbyn has suggested that it will centre around three core principles: “injustice, inequality, and opportunities”.
One promise Corbyn has made is to raise income tax for those earning more than £80,000 per year. He has warned those “who thought they could get away with asset stripping our industry, crashing our economy through their greed and ripping off workers and consumers”.
Labour’s biggest single financial supporter, Unite, said that they would not want Tories and moderate Labour supporters having the satisfaction from Corbyn stepping down.
“There is no way that we are going to give Jeremy Corbyn’s scalp to the Right.” the source said.
The Labour leader will launch the election campaign in Manchester, where he will tell audiences that a “rigged system” has been “holding us back”.
Andrew Percy, the Government’s northern powerhouse minister, said: “Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies are trying to take voters for fools by airbrushing their nonsensical and embarrassing leader out of election leaflets.” he said, in reference to Mr Burgon, who failed to mention the Labor leader in his four page election leaflet.
“It is a simple fact that any vote for any Labour candidate anywhere in Britain will be claimed by Jeremy Corbyn as a vote for him and his failed, disastrous and dangerous ideas.
“Putting him in Downing Street means putting a weak and floundering leader in charge of Brexit negotiations, sitting across the table from 27 EU leaders who have shown they are determined to do a deal that works for them. Jeremy Corbyn would embarrass Britain in Brussels, just as he has embarrassed Labour at home.
“It’s no wonder candidates want nothing to do with him.”