Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn Independent MP, founder and director of PJP (Peace & Justice Project), is a twice elected leader of the UK Labour Party from 2015 to 2020.

He has served as a Member of British Parliament in Islington North for 42 years and was a Parliamentary Member of the Council of Europe from 2020 to 2024. His expansive and lifelong campaigning for peace, justice and human rights has taken him across the world, advocating in senior roles for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, Stop the War, the UN Human Rights Council in New York (review of the Geneva Convention), nuclear non-proliferation, trade unions, employment rights, Indigenous rights and many social movements.

Corbyn has twice been awarded prizes for promoting peace, including the Seán MacBride Peace Prize for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace. He founded the Peace & Justice Project in 2020 and the People’s Forum in 2024.