EU support for austerity opens door to far right, Corbyn says

Failed neoliberal policies have caused serious hardship, leader tells European socialists

Jeremy Corbyn has told an audience of European socialists that EU "support for austerity" had caused hardship for ordinary people and unless something changes there is a risk that "the fake populists of the far right will fill the vacuum".

Speaking at the Congress of European Socialists in Lisbon, the Labour leader added that his party respected the result of the Brexit vote and said it was the duty of the left in the UK to "shape what comes next".