Jeremy Corbyn has warned the Conservatives they will be judged on their actions and not their words as he branded his rivals’ conference a “feast of spin and deception” with Government ministers making “fake claims”
The new Labour leader insisted a Labour revival following his election to the post had left David Cameron and the Tories “rattled”.
He accused the Conservatives, who held their annual conference in Manchester this week, of making “fake claims” on issues such as poverty and equality.
In contrast he said it is the Labour Party that represents the “great majority of the British people who demand a fairer and more equal society”.
The veteran left-winger spoke out as he made his second trip north to Scotland in seven days.
Mr Corbyn, who was visiting Glasgow, said: “The Tory conference was a feast of spin and deception.
“Fake claims to be on the side of working people while robbing three million low-paid families of £1,300 a year with the tax credit cuts – 350,000 families in Scotland receive tax credits, more than 50,000 in Glasgow are at risk from these Tory cuts.
“Fake claims to be fighting poverty on the very day independent research revealed their cuts would drive more than 200,000 working households into poverty.
“Fake claims to support equality as Theresa May was condemned by the Institute of Directors for jeopardising Britain’s economic recovery by pandering to anti-immigration sentiment.”
But he claimed it was not only the Home Secretary “who let the mask slip to reveal how far the Tories are from the common ground”.
Mr Corbyn added that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had “showed low-paid workers just what the Tories really think of them when he said their tax credits had to be cut to make them graft”.
The Labour leader argued: “Behind the spin and the rhetoric we could all see out of their own mouths it was the same old Tories. On the side of the few not the many. Robbing millions of Britain’s low-paid workers to fund an inheritance tax cut for the 60,000 wealthiest estates. Whose answer on tax credits now is apparently to send families their cuts letter after rather than before Christmas.
“Our huge and growing membership, a re-vitalised Labour, is what has rattled Cameron and the Tories. While they hide behind crude personal attacks, we will continue to judge their actions, not their words because Labour stands with the many, the great majority of the British people who demand a fairer and more equal society.”