A CONFIDENT Jeremy Corbyn, buoyed by the support of around 200,000 people at Durham Miners’ Gala, has invited the Government to stand aside so he can become Prime Minister.

The Labour Party leader was given hero’s welcome at the 133rd Big Meeting in Durham this afternoon.

His 35-minute speech was met with rapturous applause from a crowd who soaked up the sun on the packed Racecourse.

The 68-year-old Islington North MP said: “I have got good news for the Tories. I know they are living through a nightmare at the moment. I am someone who does not involve himself in personal abuse.  

“I would not never exploit anyone else’s misfortune, so I want to help these Tories out of their nightmare.

“Feel free at any time to resign at any time and we will have another General Election.”

Mr Corbyn said Labour has gained three million supporters in the snap General Election called by Theresa May.

He said: “It did not happen because of the kindness of the press barons.

“It happened because of the generosity and decency of ordinary people across this country who saw the need to do things differently and better.”

Crowds chanted ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn throughout the day, and the unexpected success of Labour in the election was a recurring theme throughout the speeches on the platform, along with a sense of optimism that public opinion was swaying to the left.

The speakers covered similar themes, all making heartfelt tributes to Davey Hopper, the late Durham Miners’ Association chairman who died a week after last year’s gala, and Bradley Lowery, the six-year-old County Durham boy who lost his battle with neuroblastoma on Friday.

As well as attacking the Tories austerity programme and the deal with the DUP, speakers also called for an inquiry into Orgreave and the Grenfell tower disaster.

Fire Brigade’s Union boss Matt Wrack became so emotional he was visibly close to tears when explaining the sacrifices his members made to save people, as well as calling for justice for the dead.

He said: “This was no act of God. There was no high power that ordained that this could, or should have happened.

“We live in a wealthy country with huge knowledge of building construction.

“We have leading experts on fire safety in this country. This should not happened here. But it did happen here. This is a country which can remote controlled guided missiles down streets turning corners halfway across then world the world but we can’t keep people safe in their own homes.

“We have the right to ask question and demand answer and the right to demand action as a result of those questions.

“We will find as we examine this incident this was no act of God. This is the result of a series of political decisions that created this situation, which allowed this to happen.”

Unite’s general secretary Len McCluskey went further, suggesting the residents had been ‘murdered’ by capitalism.

He said: “The residents who died were murdered, murdered by years of local authority cuts, by corporate greed and by uncaring capitalism.”

Amid passionate speeches and serious messages heralding a new wave of popular socialism, there was good humour and jollity.

Shadow education secretary Angela Raynor crammed so many gags into her speech one group of women near the front sang her name instead of Oh Jeremy Corbyn to the tune of Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes.

She said: “Theresa May started the campaign warning that if enough people voted for Labour there would be a coalition of chaos, with a weak Prime Minister, pursing extremist policies, propped up with by a small sectarian party.

“Now she is trying proving it. Strong and stable was a punchline. Weak and wobbly is now a fact.

“We have Prime Minister who is no longer running her own cabinet. She is running away from her cabinet.

“The Queen’s Speech could have been written on the back of a post it note.

“They are so desperate, they even made the Queen miss Ascot. They really don’t like state pensioners, do they?

“They are so desperate for friends they have announced a trade deal with President Trump, the man who replaced the audacity of hope with the audacity of grope.

"He is not the only orange man the Tories have been desperately negotiating with.

"I’ll keep em coming. I am here all afternoon.

“Theresa May has paid out billions of pounds for support of the DUP’s Arlene Foster, the most expensive right winger since Cristiano Ronaldo.”