Britain’s Labour to campaign to stay in EU – Corbyn ally says

Mr Corbyn said that while policy was “developing” he could not foresee a situation where Labour would campaign for a “Brexit” under his leadership.

There was no fisticuffs, no handbags at dawn, no jibes.

Mr Corbyn is expected to make his first trip north of the Border as leader within the next few days.

Known for being polite, even to his adversaries, it is clear Mr Corbyn wants the Prime Minister to act in the same way, but it is unclear how David Cameron is going to respond.

The half-hour-long fixture is traditionally a robust, sometimes aggressive confrontation between the prime minister and the opposition leader as they trade blows and try to score points at each other’s expense.

A one-time rank outsider to win the party leadership contest, more than 250,000 people turned out to vote the old school left-winger onto the front benches.

Ahead of the TUC meeting, unions warned that millions of their members could vote against the UK’s continued membership of the EU if Cameron did not protect workers’ rights in his negotiations, The Guardian reported. Jeremy absolutely stands with and respects everybody who has fought, who has lost their life, been wounded, in fighting.

Mr Corbyn said he had repeatedly been told in conversations with voters that they viewed PMQs and Parliament generally as “too theatrical” and “out of touch”.

The hard-left Corbyn said on Monday Labour should not automatically support any deal negotiated by Cameron for Britain to remain in the European Union.

He said: “I do think there is a public call for Prime Minister’s Questions to be done differently and I would congratulate him on the approach that he took”.

He welcomed the new style of questioning however, joking that no-one would be more delighted than him for a change.

But Angela Smith, now Baroness Smith, said: “I’m looking forward to working with Jeremy”.

The PMQs can also be followed on the BBC News website’s live page and its news channel from noon.

Finance minister George Osborne said that if the opposition Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn ever won power it would wreck the British economy with money printing, higher borrowing and punitive income taxes.