Jeremy Corbyn [Image: Will Oliver/EPA].

The International Peace Bureau awards the Séan MacBride Peace Prize every year to a person, or organisation, or movement in recognition of its outstanding work for peace, disarmament, human rights.

This year, Mr Corbyn was one of three recipients of the prize, alongside Noam Chomsky and the All Okinawa Council Against Henoko New Base.

According to the IPB’s website, Mr Corbyn wins the awared for “his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace.

“As an active member, vice-chair and now vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK he has for many years worked to further the political message of nuclear disarmament.

“As the past chair of the Stop the War Campaign in the UK he has worked for peace and alternatives to war.

“As a member of parliament in the UK he has, for 34 years continually taken that work for justice, peace and disarmament to the political arena both in and outside of Parliament.

“He has ceaselessly stood by the principles, which he has held for so long, to ensure true security and well-being for all – for his constituents, for the citizens of the UK and for the people of the world.

“Now, as leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition he continues to carry his personal principles into his political life – stating openly that he could not press the nuclear button and arguing strongly for a re-orientation of priorities – to cut military spending and spend instead on health, welfare and education.”

The prize ceremony was held on November 24 in Barcelona, but Mr Corbyn had to wait until this weekend to collect it, when he travelled to the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva to deliver a landmark speech on social justice.

It seems Mr Corbyn is so modest, he hasn’t actually commented on this. I can’t find a reference to it on Twitter, at least. If anybody can find a word on this subject from the Labour leader, let us know.

*So much for the claims that Skwawkbox is all about ‘fake news’.

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