JEREMY CORBYN received a rapturous welcome on Saturday when he visited a Yorkshire valley twice devastated by floods in the last decade.

The Labour leader was in the community of Mytholmroyd in Calder Valley in the West Yorkshire Pennines.

Mr Corbyn was greeted by an audience of over 300 in an overflowing community centre, where he pledged action to tackle climate change, which contributed to floods that saw riverside shops in Mytholmroyd demolished by the force of the River Calder in 2015.

And he warned that action on climate change in Britain would be jeopardised by any trade deal with the US.

“When the issue of climate change and global warming is raised in the United States they say they do not like this issue to be discussed,” he said.

“The whole idea of including environmental responsibility in any trade deal is not on the table. That is the vision of what they will do.”

He said Labour’s “green revolution” would protect communities like those that were flooded in the Calder Valley and create hundreds of thousands of high-skilled, high-quality jobs.

“It will enable us to negotiate a much tougher Paris Agreement,” he said.

Calder Valley is one of the key marginal parliamentary constituencies being targeted by Labour.

Sitting MP Tory Craig Whittaker held the seat in 2017 with a majority of just 609 votes.

Significantly, the Greens, who received 631 votes in 2017, have withdrawn their candidate and urged their supporters to vote for Labour candidate Josh Fenton-Glynn.