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How God could save Jeremy Corbyn

The Labour leader isn’t the angry atheist you might expect – and that could help him reassure the public

26 September 2015

8:00 AM

26 September 2015

8:00 AM

On religion, Jeremy Corbyn is interestingly moderate, circumspect — not the angry atheist you might expect. In a recent interview with the Christian magazine Third Way, he said his upbringing was quite religious: his mother was a ‘Bible-reading agnostic’ and his father a believer, and he went to a Christian school.

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