Jeremy Corbyn confirms McDonnell, Abbott and Thornberry would run his Government – so would YOU vote for IRA sympathiser, maths-challenged leftie and notorious snob?
The Labour leader says that his top team will stay in place if he becomes Prime Minister
JEREMY CORBYN last night confirmed that he will install a trio of bungling lefties as his top team if he becomes PM next week.
John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Emily Thornberry would fill the senior jobs of Chancellor, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, the Labour boss said.
The three MPs - like Mr Corbyn himself - are known for their hard left views and are highly controversial even within Labour.
But when asked last night if the trio would become senior ministers in the event of a Labour victory, he told ITV News: “Of course, the top team are there in place."
While Theresa May is still considered likely to stay in office, the polls are tightening - with a new survey published today giving the Tories a lead of just five points.
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley responded: "Corbyn has confirmed he’ll appoint a Marxist as Chancellor, a Home Secretary who wants to scrap MI5, and a Foreign Secretary who mocks the English flag."
Here The Sun profiles the four people - all MPs in London - who could be running the country if Labour pull off an upset victory next Thursday.
HARD-LEFT LEADER WHO PULLED OFF SHOCK LEADERSHIP WIN
Jeremy Corbyn, 68, has been in Parliament since 1983 - but for three decades, he made almost no impact on the public at all.
The MP for Islington North was considered a marginal figure, who campaigned on issues such as Palestine and Irish nationalism.
He repeatedly talked to IRA terrorists, earning a public rebuke from the Labour leader Neil Kinnock when he invited two convicted bombers to Parliament.
And he notoriously referred to terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah as his "friends", describing the death of Osama bin Laden as a "tragedy".
Mr Corbyn was one of the most rebellious backbench MPs under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, repeatedly defying his party.
But in 2015, he was unexpectedly propelled to fame when he defeated three more moderate candidates to become Labour leader.
A huge majority of his MPs voted for him to quit last year, but he survived a second leadership contest thanks to backing from left-wing party members.
The manifesto drafted by Mr Corbyn is the most statist in decades, promising to nationalise the railways and utilities as well as ramping up tax and spending.
MARXIST WHO ENCOURAGED RIOTS
John McDonnell, 65, is a close pal of Mr Corbyn who once joked that the party leader is the only friend he's ever made in politics.
He is MP for Hayes and Harlington and was also a backbench rebel under New Labour, making him hugely isolated within the party.
Mr McDonnell is a self-declared Marxist, who said of the financial crisis: "I’ve been waiting for this for a generation."
After students staged a violent riot during a protest against tuition fees in 2010, he laughed about them "kicking the s**t out of Millbank" and described them as "the best of our movement".
Like his friend Jeremy, he has sympathised with the IRA, once hailing "the bombs and bullets and sacrifice" of the republican movement.
Mr Corbyn appointed Mr McDonnell as Shadow Chancellor in September 2015 - but the previously obscure MP did not endear himself to the public.
He was widely mocked when he read from Mao's Little Red Book in the House of Commons in a bizarre stunt.
ANTI-POLICE RADICAL WHO CAN'T ADD UP
Diane Abbott, 63, was the first black woman ever elected to the House of Commons when she became MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987.
She has since fostered a reputation as a hard-left outlier - although she also maintained an unlikely sideline as a light-hearted TV personality often teamed up with her childhood friend Michael Portillo.
Ms Abbott called in the 1980s for the "defeat of the British state", saying that if Irish republican hardliners won it would be "a victory for all of us".
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After becoming an MP, she called for “the abolition of conspiratorial groups like MI5 and Special Branch", and she has branded the Home Office as fundamentally racist.
She was fiercely criticised when, despite her socialist views, she sent her son to a pricey private school.
Ms Abbott was not a popular choice as a shadow minister - backbench MP Jess Phillips once told her to "f*** off" during a party meeting.
And a few weeks ago she became a figure of fun when she suggeted in an interview that it was possible to hire 10,000 extra police officers for just £300,000.
SACKED FOR BEING A SNOB
Emily Thornberry, 56 - who should technically be known as Lady Nugee because of her husband, a senior judge - is in line to run Britain's foreign policy.
The Islington South MP was appointed to the front bench by Ed Miliband, before being forced to resign in disgrace in 2014.
While campaigning in Kent, Ms Thornberry shared a picture of white van man Dan Ware's house, with the England flag hanging outside, captioned: “Image from #Rochester.”
The tweet was widely interpreted as a snobbish gesture, and she was sacked from her post for showing
"disrespect" to Mr Ware.
But Ms Thornberry was brought back by Mr Corbyn and has since been one of his most aggressive attack dogs in the media.
When asked if she knew the name of France's foreign minister during a TV interview, she accused the presenter of being "sexist" by forcing her to answer a "pub quiz".
And just this week, she was mocked when she suggested that we cannot export food to Australia because it will go off on the journey.