Side-by-side maps of UK constituencies at the start and end of the 2010s show a clear picture of how Labour’s support has eroded over the decade. Video: Jeremy Corbyn's 'we are resistance' New Year message (The Guardian) The two maps - available under Creative Commons - show how the Conservatives have made gains in northern England and Wales, while Labour has also lost a huge amount of ground to the SNP in Scotland. Before he became fully engaged with politics at home, Corbyn, aged around 19, spent two years in Jamaica, where he was a teacher, and then Chile, where he took part in the May Day march against the Chilean government. (Pictured) Corbyn (C) and other Labour Members of Parliament (MP) with Tamil refugees on board the government detention ship, the Earl William, based at Harwich on Aug. 6, 1987. Corbyn entered Parliament from the safe Labour seat of Islington North following his win in the 1983 general elections. At the same time, he also started writing for the communist newspaper, Morning Star, which he has described as the “most precious and only voice wehave in the daily media.” A year after his becoming MP, Corbyn was arrested for protesting outside the South African embassy against apartheid. Corbyn was again in the eye of controversy in 1987 when he observed a minute’s silence as a mark of tribute for eight IRA members killed in an ambush by SAS in Gibraltar. At a meeting the same year, he had said that he felt “happy to commemorate all those who died fighting for an independent Ireland.” His views led to MI5, the U.K.’s domestic counter-intelligence agency, opena temporary file on him. Labour came to power in 1997 but Corbyn was never given any ministerial position for the 13 consecutive years it ruled the United Kingdom. In 1998, he was among the politicians who campaigned for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s arrest in a case involving the murder of a British stockbroker in Chile in 1975. The bid failed but the House of Lords later ruled Pinochet must stay in Britain to be extradited to Spain to face charges including genocide during and after the 1973 coup. Despite going against the party line more times than could be counted, a sudden backing of some MPs before the close of nominations in 2015 saw Corbyn emerge as a candidate for the party’s leadership. Corbyn, however, successfully parried his opponents for a second time and won the Labour Party leadership election in September 2016 by a bigger margin than the previous year’s. Faced with accusations of anti-Semitism within the party in 2016, Corbyn suspended former London Mayor Ken Livingstone for saying that Adolf Hitler supported Zionism. Two years later, he praised Iran for its “tolerance and acceptance of other faiths, traditions and ethnic groupings” at the 25th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. Writing in the Guardian, the former shadow business secretary said: “The truth is that to change our country, we have to change ourselves.” Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer, who is considering running, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We need to build on that rather than simply say ‘Let’s now oversteer and go back to some bygone age’. She has written in the Guardian: “Leadership means leading a team, working with every part of our movement and using all our party’s talents to fight the Conservatives at every turn and map Labour’s route back to power.
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