What more can Jeremy Corbyn do to turn the effervescent politics of protest into the hard realities of power? He joins me now.
JC: Welcome. Good morning.
AM: Good morning, Mr Corbyn, you're looking very chipper, if I may say so.
JC: Well it's a nice Sunday morning. And what better place to spend it than with you.
AM: That's very kind of you to say so. Now you say in your interview in the Sunday Mirror today that you can be Prime Minister very shortly and that you still expect to put down a Labour programme in the House of Commons. I just don't understand how that can happen, given the numbers.
JC: Well look, we have a chaotic situation with a government that sought re-election on the basis of wanting a bigger mandate and a bigger majority to bring stability to British politics and what have we got? A minority government relying on the DUP to try and get business through the House of Commons when they have no agreed position, as far as I can work out, on most issues. It seems to me chaotic. And I think we are quite ready and able to put forward a serious programme which obviously has massive support in this country. Remember this election campaign turned around a great deal on the basis of an awful lot of people rejecting the politics of fear and instead embracing the politics of hope, that we can challenge austerity and we can actually start sharing the wealth out in this country a bit better.
AM: But in terms of raw brute numbers and the way the system works they got more votes and they got more seats than you did and if they can form a coalition or some kind of government then they have the right to do that. And it's very hard to see how with your numbers. You can look.
JC: They are trying to form a government at the moment. I've no idea what they're going to put into the Queen's Speech. No idea what their stance is going to be on a legislative programme. I'm very clear what our stance is. We fought this election campaign on a jobs first Brexit. We fought this election campaign to oppose austerity. We fought this election campaign to start bringing fairness and justice, security for old people and real hope for young people. Surely the result has shown something very remarkable in British politics. Young people became engaged, older people joined in that engagement. We have an incredible process here but something actually.
It was quite historic apogee.
AM: It was an extraordinary campaign but nonetheless at the end do of it you lost the election. You accept that?
