Graham Vanbergen
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David Cameron has lambasted Jeremy Corbyn as a \u201csecurity threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating\u201d ideologue in his most vocal attack yet on the newly appointed Labour leader, which was designed to show that he is wholly unsuitable to lead Britain. This is a far cry from Cameron welcoming Corbyn to the first of PMQ\u2019s exchanges in parliament just one month ago where he urged working together in the national interest. \u201cIf we can change PMQs, nobody would be more delighted than me.\u201d The session then descended as usual.<\/p>\n
Cameron\u2019s speech to the Conservative conference in Manchester on Wednesday was designed to show his determination to occupy the centre ground in the wake of Corbyn\u2019s emphatic victory in the Labour leadership contest by setting out an optimistic framework. He pledged to launch an all-out assault on the \u201cscourge of poverty\u201d and to turn the Tories into the party of the \u201cequal shot\u201d by eradicating all forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n
A strange statement from a man who has presided over the fastest growth in poverty in Britain in decades. And it is not as though Cameron was not aware of this fact. From the charity Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE) \u2014 Current government policy will result in a rise in poverty in the UK, according to forecasts by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in Child and Working-Age Poverty from 2010 to 2020. Child poverty will rise to 24 per cent by 2020\/21, considerably higher than the 10 per cent target in the Child Poverty Act enshrined into law in 2010 and then scrapped just three months ago.<\/p>\n
The prime minister said to treat Corbyn with kid gloves by saying he could not be trusted with Britain\u2019s security. Cameron illustrated this point by highlighting the reported remarks by the Labour leader that the death of Osama bin Laden had been a tragedy.<\/p>\n
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