‘Tories Out’ march: Jeremy Corbyn rallies comrades in bid to oust Theresa May & become PM

The embattled Labour leader is set to address the massive NotOneDayMore/ToriesOut march by hard line socialists demanding Theresa May steps down despite the Tories easily beating Labour in the election.

Angry protestors gathered in Portland Square holding banners emblazoned with “Kick the Tories out” and “Auserity kills” before they made their way to Parliament Square. 

Despite losing the election with 55 fewer seats that the Conservatives, Jeremy Corbyn continues to insist that he won and will demand that he is allowed to become Prime Minister.

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Corbyn is set to lead the ‘Tories Out’ march

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Around 9,000 people are expected to take part in the protest

We have to change our economic system so that it works for the many, not just a few

Jeremy Corbyn

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott was also pictured at the march, where she gave a speech to rally Labour supporters. 

The Labour leader will be joined at the demonstration in Parliament Square at 1pm by fellow hard Left extremists including Mr McCluskey and representatives of leftwing fronts including Stop the War Coalition, the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, Stand Up To Racism, and most of the biggest unions.

More than 10,000 people are taking part in the event, organised by The People’s Assembly.

Protesters are calling for an end to the 1 per cent pay gap and more investment in the NHS, education and housing. 

Matt Wrack, from the Fire Brigade Union told Sky News fire services had been “absolutely decimated and cut to pieces by the policies of this government”. 

Speaking at the rally, he said firefighters were “taking longer to get fires than we were 20 years ago.”

The organisers wrote on Facebook: “Theresa May called the General Election to gain a bigger majority, and despite massive media bias in favour of the Conservatives, she failed spectacularly to deliver on that.  

“Now the Tories are in chaos trying to prop up a Government with the deeply conservative and regressive Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).”

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Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott speaks to demonstrators during the ‘Not One Day More’

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Activists wear masks during the protest on Parliament

Speaking in Hastings, East Sussex before the march, Mr Corbyn, said austerity had been “selective, brutal, nasty and vile towards the poorest and most vulnerable”. 

He told a rally: ‘Labour is no longer just the Official Opposition, we are a government in waiting.

“It is not good enough for politicians – including your MP, the Home Secretary – to praise the police, firefighters and NHS staff when they respond to horrific incidents like the recent terrorist attacks or the Grenfell Tower fire, and then vote to make them worse off again year after year.

“This is what happened in parliament this week. Nurses in our hospitals have had a real terms pay cut of 14% under this government and some are even having to use food banks.

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People assemble in Portland Place in London, before marching to Parliament Square

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Protestors hold placards saying ‘Jez we can’

“Yet the Government refused to back our calls to lift the public sector pay cap and recruit more police and firefighters.

“You can’t keep our communities safe on the cheap. When you cut over 20,000 police officers, over 11,000 firefighters, and leave our hospitals in record deficit having to cut back on services.

“We have to change our economic system so that it works for the many, not just a few.”

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