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		</div><p>Jeremy Corbyn has said he would give up the British prime minister’s country residence Chequers if he wins next week’s General Election.</p>
<p>The Labour leader said he would follow shadow chancellor John McDonnell’s lead and give the stately Buckinghamshire home to a homeless family.</p>
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<p>Mr McDonnell has said he would do the same with Number 11 Downing Street if he becomes chancellor.</p>
<p>In an interview with ITV, Mr Corbyn said he would “indeed” give over the 1,000 acres of lavish surroundings – where former British prime minister Theresa May found Cabinet agreement for her Brexit plan and hosted a press conference with US President Donald Trump – to those without a home.</p>
<p>The sixteenth-century residence in the Chiltern Hills was gifted a century ago to whoever holds the office of British prime minister to allow them a place to retreat from the bustle of Downing Street, with Chequers only 41 miles from Westminster.</p>
<p>Mr Corbyn made the revelation during his leaders’ interview with Julie Etchingham.</p>
<p>The news anchor said: “John McDonnell said he wouldn’t move into No 11 – he’d allow a homeless family to live there.</p>
<div>“Would you consider giving up Chequers if you were Prime Minister?”</div>
<p>The UK Labour leader replied: “I would indeed. It can’t be right. We’re a country with 150 billionaires, and we’ve still got people sleeping on the streets.”</p>
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<p>The longstanding politician, an MP since 1983, appeared to admit during the interview that he did not know when the Queen’s message is aired on Christmas Day.</p>
<p>Asked whether he sat down to watch the Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s annual message, he said: “It’s on in the morning, usually we have it on.”</p>
<p>But he was corrected by Ms Etchingham, who told him: “It’s not on in the morning. It’s at three o’clock in the afternoon.”</p>
<p>Mr Corbyn replied by saying he and his family “don’t watch television very much on Christmas Day” and are often out visiting homeless shelters instead.</p>
<p>Pressed on whether he usually watches the British monarch’s public addresses, the 70-year-old said: “There is lots to do. I enjoy the presence of my family and friends around Christmas. Obviously, like everybody else does.</p>
<figure id="attachment_145574" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-145574" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-145574" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/C4FA7C6E-5DD5-467F-A8EC-9F6FF321F53E.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="439" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-145574" class="wp-caption-text">The Queen’s Christmas message is broadcast on television every year</figcaption></figure>
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<p>“And, I also visit the homeless shelter, either on Christmas Day, or the day before, to talk to, and listen to people’s lives, about how they could be made better with a government that cared for them.”</p>
<p>He also took the chance to apologies again for those who had “suffered” as a result of the anti-Semitism in his party and called the rise in racism against Jewish people “appalling”.</p>
<p>“Anti-Semitism is a vile evil in our society. I am not a racist, in any form – I’ve spent my life opposing racism,” he told the programme.</p>
<p>“And, I think the treatment of Jewish people that suffer from anti-Semitism is appalling.</p>
<p>And where there’s been delays by my party in instituting a process, of course, I apologise to those that suffered as a result of it.”</p>
<p>Mr Corbyn – who has campaigned for decades for a solution for the Palestinian people – said he accepted the state of Israel had a right to exist.</p>
<p>The full programme – The Leader Interviews: Jeremy Corbyn – Tonight – will air on ITV at 7.30pm on Thursday.</p>
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