'Jeremy Corbyn Has the Ability To Transform The Country' Says Film Director Ken Loach

Ken Loach was born in 1936 in Nuneaton. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and went on to study law at St. Peter's Hall, Oxford. After a brief spell in the theatre, Loach was recruited by the BBC in 1963 as a television director. This launched a long career directing films for television and the cinema, from Cathy Come Home and Kes in the sixties to Land And Freedom, Sweet Sixteen and The Wind That Shakes The Barley in recent years.

A Labour government would scrap the Government’s controversial Work Capability Assessments for disabled people, the Labour party has announced.

The fit-to-work tests try to quantify how ill a person is, to what extent they are prevented from working, and what payment they should therefore receive. The tests have been criticised for refusing benefit payments to deserving applicants – and for the high rate of successful appeals.

Jeremy Corbyn has the ability to transform the country and stand up to the Government’s “abusive behaviour” if his own MPs can halt their hostile attacks, veteran director Ken Loach said.

The award-winning filmmaker said spending time with Mr Corbyn had shown him the Labour leader’s ability to connect with the public.

He suggested that if he entered Downing Street Mr Corbyn could transform the country, reports the Press Association. Loach, whose new film I, Daniel Blake chronicles the central character’s struggles with the bureaucracy of the welfare system, said Corbyn would not tolerate the “horrific” benefits sanctions regime.