Jeremy Corbyn outlines plan for new political party and pledges: ‘I am here to serve the people’

Jeremy Corbyn outlines plan for new political party and pledges: 'I am here to serve the people'ITV/ Peston

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00:00Jeremy, one of the things that there's been a lot of talk about

00:04is whether you will turn your alliance of MPs into a formal party

00:10and whether you're thinking of contesting the next election as a formal party.

00:15Where are you on that?

00:16The alliance group of MPs, five of us, have worked very hard and very well together

00:20over the past year in Parliament and we're coming up to our first anniversary.

00:24But there's some data that shows that if you did launch a party, you might do rather well.

00:27Well, exactly. So next time you ask questions, ask about the alternative

00:32of a left, independent party, of a socialist view that's being put.

00:38So are you going to create one?

00:39Let me finish. You're so excited. You just want it to start, don't you?

00:43We haven't got long. The reason I'm pushing is we haven't got long to the end of the program.

00:46Oh, that's what it is. There's a lot of people all around the country

00:49in different independent groups. You look in Birmingham, look in Liverpool,

00:52look in Southport and so on. There is a thirst for an alternative view to be put.

00:56I'm working with all of those people. That grouping will come together.

01:01There will be an alternative view and there will be an alternative put there,

01:04which is about a society that deals with poverty, inequality and a foreign policy

01:09that's based on peace rather than war.

01:11And would you like to lead that group?

01:14I'm here to work. I'm here to serve the people in the way I've always tried to do.

01:18I'm here to serve the people in the way I've always tried to do.

01:21I'm here to serve the people in the way I've been able to serve.

01:24I think it's worth a lot of people in both countries.

01:27We're also looking forward to doing what they're doing.

01:30But in this field, we're looking forward to doing what they're doing.

01:32We're looking forward to doing, you've got to do something else.

01:34I'm with us and I'm making a lot of people in this field.