JEREMY Corbyn will be speaking in his role with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) at this year's Glastonbury Festival.

THe Labour leader will give a talk in the Left Field after an invite from festival devotee and stage organiser, Billy Bragg.

Billy said: "The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader has galvanised a new generation of activists and this year at Left Field and we aim to give them a platform to discuss issues around social justice, the economy, gender and the possibilities for genuine change under a Corbyn government."

Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis added: "The worker’s beer company and myself started the Left Field tent, following our tradition of campaigning for CND and helping the miners who were totally destroyed by Maggie [Thatcher] in the Eighties.

"And before that there was the huge surge of interest in the green movement’s efforts to clean up our country when the eco warriors arrived here in all their glory in the seventies."

Somerset County Gazette: Billy Bragg