In his office at the French parliament before travelling to Liverpool, Mélenchon told the Guardian he sought to invite Corbyn to join an international club for like-minded movements. Mélenchon said he was not coming to Liverpool with advice for Corbyn but rather to “watch and learn”. I think in British collective memory, their extraordinary resistance to Nazism created a great pride and assurance, a self-confidence. “We’d be wrong to think that British voters’ concerns were simply focused on the country’s relationship to the EU. I don’t use it, I create other political concepts and criteria.”Asked about accusations of antisemitism levelled against Corbyn, Mélenchon said: “I don’t believe it.

Source: The Guardian September 23, 2018 16:20 UTC