Coronavirus: Jeremy Corbyn says he was proved 'right' on public spending
Jeremy Corbyn says he"did everything" he could to win elections
But he said he had been vindicated by the vast sums the government was spending on the current crisis.In an interview with BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mr Corbyn said that the country had been"ill-prepared" for the coronavirus pandemic because of "10 years of austerity, of underfunding the National Health Service and underfunding our benefit system".
"I was denounced as somebody that wanted to spend more money than we could possibly afford, in order to write the social wrongs of this country. Asked if his leadership was also to blame, he said he had received"unprecedented level of abuse from the mainstream media of me personally", which he said had to be"factored in".
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