WORKERS’ rights will be central to the next Labour government, party leader Jeremy Corbyn told a huge rally in south Wales at the weekend.

Mr Corbyn delivered the annual Keir Hardie memorial lecture to more than 1,000 people in Aberdare, drawing analogies between the experiences and policies of the first Labour leader and current times.

He said that Keir Hardie had begun work as a child labourer in the Lanarkshire coalfield aged 10, working at the pits until being blacklisted at 23.