Jeremy Corbyn on the IRA and immigration: Full interview on  

Amazing how this guy puts up with being put on trial and doesn't break

The IRA were a terrorist group, but speaking to them was absolutely necessary for peace in Northern Ireland.

I like him, I like him a lot. Plain speaking without a toffee nose, got my vote.

Of course he condemns the IRA, he condemns all bombing. He himself worked hard for peace in Northern Ireland, it would undermine that somewhat if he only condemned one side now. He has integrity. He condemns all bombing, from all sides

She was so aggressive. Terrible "journalism" on her part. I highly doubt that she would use that kind of questioning with a Tory opposite her.

why cant the interviewer understand that the man said he condemns all bombers, not just the IRA.

I don't understand why Labour doesn't explicitly calculate the state profit/gain from building council housing and moving housing benefit claimants from private landlord housing to council housing. They can easily pay for removing lock on in work benefits by taking the that profit/gain from housing and using it to pay for the increased in-work benefits costs.

Corbyn: nope, I wasn't even a member of the editorial board. Classic!

She doesn't have the basic intelligence to understand his answers. It's embarrassing at times.

I really do not like her interview style, why does it seem like she is attacking Jeremy? That being said he did a fantastic job with the answers.

I don't understand why alot of people hate Corbyn, I'm surprised and disappointed that alot of people are against his views but eat up Boris' pish, don't understand it. We are on the side of the good guys in my opinion.

He can't condemn the IRA because he could be the prime minister which includes the still very fragile situation in Northern Ireland and that cannot help anyone involved. He has condemned violence on all sides which is right and proper. He cannot take sides still. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

I'm sorry, but why is this man so unpopular?

She's so rude, clearly trying to put him under pressure and deferring any votes for him. Biased

It is disgusting to investigate a politician for reaching out to the nationalist community in NI,the steps to equality was supposed to begin in 1998 yet still it's just been shown that equality is not a thing.Why not investigate politicians for reaching out to the Unionist population for being involved with the UDA? No of course not because that would be Anti-British..

Oh Lord Sophie that was awful. Embarrassingly so. Is this the level of journalism we're now to expect in the UK? Where did they hire that brainly hack from, a school newspaper? I'd laugh if it wasn't so tragic.

Quite possibly one of the worst attempts at 'journalism' by Sophy Ridge there that I have EVER seen. Absolutely disgraceful

It's pretty easy to condemn the ira and he couldn't do it.

I find sky interviewers to be so painfully biased, I know they are only towing the Murdock line but this woman will not let him finish, I am apolitical, and a former national newspaper guy, but I do find sky's personal attacks on him embarassingly cringeworthy.

She tried so hard to beat this man down, but she failed miserably. Made him look good in the end. Thanks, blondie!

why does this reporter insist on asking the same ridiculous question over & over again. My opinion of this man has just rocketed! Completely calm under completely pathetic questioning. would she be asking queen Elizabeth II these stupid questions after greeting Martin Mcguinness with open arms???

"sometimes listening to ppl u dont agree with does u good" wrong it does u good ALL the time the best informed are the ones who hear MOST points of view

She didn't land a single blow there. Back to the drawing board, eh? It's delicious watching established power start to panic.

If only Corbyn had stuck to this stance..on FOI and the Brexit position he would be on the verge of power today..

Wow he dismantled that reporter.

Jeremy 1 Sophy 0

What an awful interviewer, Jeremy Corbyn destroyed her.

I really hope this guy becomes prime minister

jeremy corbyn has to be one of the calmest, coolest politicians around. He doesnt break at all under pressure. I will likely vote for him in the general election.

this guy is like Bernie of UK

Try and fail every-time, ,,,,he's the man

sky news have posted this? thought would be too embarrassed by this car crash journalist.

on his record he's stood on the right side on so many issues- he's been elected consecutively in a very diverse (both ethnically and financially) constituency. he won 2 leadership elections - over 50% in a 4 horse race and took the labour party membership to over 500,000 (the largest in the UK) and in an establishment coup attempt he saw off a leadership challenge that saw his supporters right to vote diminished- he still won and won a larger mandate of over 60%.

Who wrote the description for this video? Its a complete scam, click bait and twisted words. Nothing is mentioned about the interviewer's poor research skills? The media needs to leave this decent human alone, he's a good person. Is that such a bad quality to have in the representative of our country. Nice guy, with a brain and is humble vs Some fox hunting billionaire old hag with throw away catch phrases. Who also would rather go the one show than have a debate! How many chances do the tories need? Get your head out your arse Sky!

One of the only English politicians I liek

The only person who looks unfit for his/her job is the journalist asking questions. He does not care for the answer. What she wants is for someone to give her the answer he wants to hear. What a low life.

how on eart can someone prefer may over corbyn? it's like good vs. evil... it's just soo insane...

The British public including the British media don't understand the conflict here in Ireland. We have made tremendous strides here in the north of Ireland through cross community relations. Were the IRA a terrorist organization, of course they were they used methods of violence in order to achieve there aims, but I as an Irish republican don't condemn the organisation, I will condemn many of their bombings where innocents were killed. However to my community the British army and the loyalist paramilitary groups which the state supplied information to were also terrorists as well, lets not forget groups like the military reaction force, a state funded death squad. Both sides killed innocent people, that's what happens in a war, lets not abuse them, by using them, as a simple talking point to attack the character of someone running as the leader for everyone of this united kingdom, I wonder if they'll do the same to Theresa May?

Sophy Ridge's Cathy Newman moment

Fire Sophy Ridge

This man is so inspiring. What an amazing thing it would be to have him leading our country, at the forefront of inevitable change. He has truth on his side, the greatest power known to anything ever been and will be.

win win corbyn is a lion unlike May the evil Witch

If there is something as the greatest fan of a politician that then I am it for Corbin and I'm not even British I'm Irish. True socialism

Condemning all violence includes the IRA. But that's not what she wants to hear. She doesn't want to condemn the violence from the soldier who shot 13yr old Margaret Gargan and later boasted about it. Or the soldier who shot 12yr old Majella O'Hare as she walked to mass, and who simply shrugged when asked by her mother why he did it. Or the soldier who shot 15yr old Daniel Hegarty twice in the head when he only left his house to look at the Army tanks involved in Operation Motorman, and the soldiers involved in that Operation held a Reunion Party last weekend.

Why should he give an exact number when that is not his policy?

Sophy Ridge needs to go back to school, where did she get her MOT ??

"That's not what I asked" Why no.. No it's not... Your point?

If Jeremy gets in, I am emigrating

Corbyn is a friend of Ireland

The first question was good, well balanced. The point about the single market can mean freedom of movement. That was a good pushback as there are countries who are not in the EU and have freedom of movement. Corbyn probably could have said that the difference is that we are not landlocked. - Although I didn't see Sky News say anything about that in terms of the Brexit debate, meaning we have more control than most other EU countries even as a member of the EU. I love how Sophy didn't seem to be listening on the answer on immigration. He even said that if we need external labour, immigration goes up. If we don't need external labour, it goes down. She still says, "does it go up or down?" Also, Sky News only has one source and doesn't fight for the credibility of Andrew Roth. Also, I don't understand why Sky News (with all of their resources) have to ask single 'gotcha' questions and they have to be yes or no. Even when answers have been given explaining the situation where there is not a categoric yes or no.

She's trying to undermine him and set a trap with each question.

this is hard to watch: i mean she is so rude! how is this even allowed to happen?

This is why through continued tory policies people are suffering today. What a loses for British people

Best PM we never had.

I see a lot of similarity in how Farage was treated by the media last election, both Corbyn and Farage promote ideas that the large corporates and the rich disagree with

This is a real leader, with real PM potential.Not scared of difficult questions, does not change the subject with flippant non-answers, but answers honestly and intelligently. The fact that he always tends to be on the right side of history is a very annoying fact to those in the media and establishment. They literally have nothing with which to blacken his name,hence the way they try and twist the facts, as this woman does in this interview. #JC4PM

Corbyn is a breath of fresh air in the current uk politics.

Shameful that he couldn’t even condemn the IRA

Funny that years and years of the vilest abuse and character assassination from every direction have resulted in a man who is so calm, composed and and effortlessly lucid on camera. Contrast that with May who visibly squirms and twitches whenever she is being interviewed. Her body language just screams uncomfortable. I know who I'd rather have negotiating with Europe!

This can't be real. She must be a satirist. I'm not from Britain though so who knows.

engineers Dr's and nurses 🤣🤣that's exactly who's coming in the boats

this is why corbyn needs to get on the telly and have a verbal sparring match with paul nuttall. the tories may have absorbed ukip support, but a lot of it came from labour, to begin with - and winning it back means winning the debate with ukip, not with may.

i dont like his politics but i respect him

i don't know why im here but that man voice makes me chill and relax 😂

is she still employed after this interview? That was ridiculous

When asked about Universal benefits/services and 'means-testing' like questions I would prefer Corbyn emphasize social cohesion and the fact that the benefit can be 'taken back' from wealthy easily by progressive taxation.

Why is a precise number needed?

Asking a stupid question five times doesn't make it less stupid, or the respondent wrong for not answering it.

She's trying to trip him up but he put her right... He was right to talk to republicans et. To bring about peace

propaganda by Murdoch press

Tax the corporations that don't and have not been. She's focusing on the medias deceitful way of playing words.

I do not mind her being aggressive in her questions, but Jeremy put her in her place very well. I do hope Sky ask May about shameful things like the poor having to beg for food in Food banks all around our country. Which after all is the 6th wealthiest country in the world. So we do have plenty of cash..... Somewhere

Does this reporter not understand nuance?

Tbh he nails it on the head when he says about the recruitment agencies bring in bands on cheap labour to destroy working standards over here.

This is like watching a ferret bother a bear. A small man syndrome chihuahua barking at a german sheppard

There's a big difference between negotiating and sympathising. Even today he won't condemn IRA bombings, and calls other terrorist groups 'friends' he's not a man to be trusted with our security.

This woman is clearly out of her depth and has no clue

She is not looking at the issues that pertain to people. She is trying to make name for herself by finding things that are not infortain. one example was the issues on the immigration number. The man gave the right perfect solution for the nation. #badjournalismwork

In Ireland we called him 'Jeremy The Gun Corbyn' for his unflinching support for anyone who wore the balaclava. In fact I suspect he likes to dress up in military clothing complete with a balaclava in his spare time

I'm sick of the Tories, their disability cuts...I've had enough. Down with the blues

She's digging out a stale story from 34 years ago to smear him and doesn't even have her facts straight. Is she trying to mark him as a terrorist? How many more times has he to condemn violence?

Meant short

The man is a Hypocrite...

this woman should never be again another interview to do.

Jeremy is more left wing than I will ever be, but he is doing a damn fine job of defending his positions in a calm and reasonable manner. SKY should be embarrassed if they had the capacity too feel such things as shame. What a weak attempt to corner the man, wow.

The money tree man corbyn had nothing too do with the peace in Ireland

I always admired his honesty, this man has always fought against injustice, unfortunately people in this country don't like honesty.

why should he say if he wants it to go up or down? the answer the gave was justified. If immigration is fair then it doesnt matter if it goes up or down

modern day apologist for hangover of violent, empire-colonialist bravura wants to humiliate - someone, obviously an enemy to their boss, who had discussions with native insurgents 30 years prior with view to improve the general situation for everyone at the time- by trying to make him feel that insurgents and his openess to discussion with them was a terrible mistake , which obviously 'absolves' the higher powers, who actually caused the blood-bath in first place, of responsibility

What hack journalism. Literally no shame, and apparently oblivious to how bad she is at her job.

Never heard or seen a worse interviewer

What a shoddy journalist! Smug, arrogant, and massively bias!

Strong & stable performance by Jeremy

That journalist is a joke!

I have lots of great ideas but I just haven't got a clue how to pay for them....... Yehow cowboy 🤠

He cannot get into numbers games because single market access = accepting free movement of people = he has no control over numbers/does not care!

I’m just thinking how pretty the interviewer is 😂

I like Sky News.👌

Reported

Wow! This popped up as a suggestion. It only goes to show how biased the media were towards Corbyn. So many questions on the historical issue of the IRA pre 1997 and almost nothing on what was in the Manifesto. We need a change in our Media still.