Jeremy Corbyn claims no one is interested in core subjects

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has claimed people are not interested in core school subjects such as English ,Maths and Science, branding them as ‘Michael Gove’s Victorian theory of education’. 

Mr Corbyn was addressing the Edinburgh Fringe festival on the final day of this five-day tour of Scotland. 

He told the packed meeting that he was planning to lead his party into the next election and into Downing Street. 

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, pictured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival today admitted it would be ‘impossible’ for a bespoke Brexit deal to be worked out for parts of the UK 

The Labour Party today committed itself to remaining in the single market and customs union after the country leaves the European Union 

The Labour Party today committed itself to remaining in the single market and customs union after the country leaves the European Union 

Mr Corbyn, pictured, was on a five day tour of Scotland touring marginal seats 

Mr Corbyn, pictured, was on a five day tour of Scotland touring marginal seats 

During his talk, Corbyn said: ‘Don’t believe in Michael Gove Victorian theory of education that only English, Maths and Science matter. Nobody here is only interested in those three subjects, so why should our children be?’ 

Mr Corbyn had previously compared himself to Bostik glue claiming he had plenty of ‘stickability’.   

Speaking at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, he said separate Brexit deals for the various regions of the UK would be incredibly difficult ‘if not impossible’. 

Speaking in Scotland, Mr Corbyn was questioned on his party’s Brexit policy after his Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer admitted the UK could stay in the single market and customs union after leaving the EU.  

The UK Labour leader said it would be very complicated to separate things out because some companies operate across the whole of the country, and that a UK-wide agreement is needed.

He also said that the idea of separate economic and legal systems in different parts of the UK becomes ‘difficult and very problematic’.

Mr Corbyn was speaking at the New Town Theatre in Edinburgh on Sunday in conversation with comedian and broadcaster Susan Morrison, on the last day of his five-day tour of Scotland.

The UK leader spoke after Labour said it is committing itself to continued UK membership of the EU single market and customs union during a transition period following the official Brexit date of March 2019.

In a dramatic policy shift, the party’s shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has announced that a Labour government would abide by ‘the same basic terms’ of Britain’s current EU membership during the transition, which some observers expect to last as long as four or five years.

Mr Corbyn said: ‘There has to be an arrangement in the long term with Europe which is one of tariff-free trade access to Europe that gives protection of the rights, regulations and gains we’ve made from Europe on workers’ rights as well as protection of consumer rights and continued membership of the European institutions, particularly the European Court of Human Rights, but there are many others as well.

Jeremy Corbyn has been on a five day tour of Scotland targeting SNP marginal seats

Jeremy Corbyn has been on a five day tour of Scotland targeting SNP marginal seats

Corbyn, pictured admitted that while he was at school the better off children would shoot birds while those less well off were the beaters - although he said he did neither

Corbyn, pictured admitted that while he was at school the better off children would shoot birds while those less well off were the beaters – although he said he did neither

‘Could you have a separate arrangement for different parts of the UK?

‘I think that becomes very complicated because if you are trading, companies exist in Scotland, exist in Wales, exist in England, they are making things, doing things together, it would be very, very difficult if not impossible to see how we could separate those out.

‘It has to be a UK-wide agreement.’

In the question and answer session with members of the audience Mr Corbyn was asked whether the party would consider fine tuning its policies further in a federalist way to reflect the nations that voted remain in the EU referendum.

He replied: ‘We are thinking very hard about what forms devolution would take in the future. Devolution in Scotland has gone a long way.

‘We are looking at the way we bring about genuine devolution and particularly economic devolution. Could you have a separate economic and legal system in different parts of the UK?

‘I think that becomes difficult and very problematic. I want a Labour government that is going to legislate better working conditions for everybody across the UK.’

Mr Corbyn has been targeting marginal seats held by the SNP on his tour of Scotland.

During the talk at the festival he spoke about his school days, remembering how his school was divided between the better-off children who went out shooting birds at the weekends and those who did the beating of the birds, while he did neither.

He also spoke about his time teaching in Jamaica as a young man and travelling around South America. 

According to The Mirror, Mr Corbyn pledged to continue funding galleries and museums ensuring they were free for the public.  

Earlier in an interview with The Sunday Post, he confirmed his intention to lead the party into the next election. 

He said: ‘I have got great stickability. It is the Bostik question. I stick around like Bostik.

‘It’s been fun. I am a relentlessly optimistic person. I was given a 200-1 chance of winning. I am not a betting man but many in my family wish I was.

‘We went into the General Election being dismissed by what you might call the commentariat but we mounted a campaign which was transformational.’ 

Mr Corbyn admitted he was not satisfied with the election result despite his party doing far better than expected. 

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