JEREMY CORBYN has warned that the “invisible hand of the market” will not save the planet and is urging more local authorities to declare a climate emergency.

The Labour leader will be visiting Cheshire East Council tomorrow, which has been led by Labour since the Conservatives lost 19 seats in the May elections.

In response to Labour’s successful bid in Parliament to declare a climate emergency, the council followed suit.  It aims to become a carbon-neutral local authority by 2025.

Now more than 100 councils and local authorities have declared a climate emergency.

Speaking ahead of the visit Mr Corbyn lauded council leader Sam Corcoran’s declaration of a climate emergency as setting an example for local government nationally.

He said: “We have no time to waste. The scale and severity of the climate emergency requires urgent action in every community across our country and across the world.

“Climate justice is about social justice. It is working-class communities in inner-city areas that suffer the worst effects of air pollution.

“Around the world it is the poorest people who are already paying a heavy price for this crisis while the super-rich and the big corporations, who are most responsible for emissions, can afford to look after themselves.

“Action from above, by people sitting in offices in Whitehall and Westminster alone, will never deliver the change we need.

“The invisible hand of the market will not save us. We need a collective response that empowers people.

“An emergency of this magnitude requires concerted and urgent action at every level to take on the polluters and secure our planet’s future.”