Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has promised to overturn the current tax system 'set up by the wealth extractors for the wealth extractors' in his first campaign speech towards the 2017 General Election.
Corbyn (pictured) said an elected Labour government would not play by "yesterday's rules set by a corporate elite" as he criticised the current Conservative government for safeguarding a "Britain run by the elite, the city and the tax dodgers". The Labour leader promised a clamp down on the "cosy cartels" that , he said, were hoarding the country's wealth for themselves. More specifically, he referred to a corporate elite "who hide funds in the Cayman Islands" that the Conservative party were "too scared" to confront. Corbyn promised to take wealth hidden in tax havens and "put it ...
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