JEREMY Corbyn has insisted the June 8 General Election is about the “Establishment versus the people” as he attacked tax-dodging fat cats and pledged to put wealth back in the hands of ordinary workers.

The Labour leader, making his first campaign speech at the administrative home of the Church of England near Westminster Abbey, portrayed himself Trump-style as the anti-Establishment figure, deriding what he called was the “rigged system,” which enabled the rich and powerful to extract wealth from the nation.

"In a sense, the Establishment and their followers in the media are quite right; I don't play by their rules. And if a Labour Government is elected on June 8, then we won't play by their rules either.

"They are yesterday's rules, set by failed political and corporate elites we should be consigning to the past.

"It is these rules that have allowed a cosy cartel to rig the system in favour of a few powerful and wealthy individuals and corporations. It is a rigged system set up by the wealth extractors, for the wealth extractors. But things can, and they will, change," declared Mr Corbyn.

He derided what he branded the "morally bankrupt" Conservative Party, which, he argued, was determined to maintain the elitist system while cutting public services and blaming migrants and the unemployed for the woes of the economy.

“It is the rigged economy the Tories are protecting that Labour is committed to challenging; we will not let the elite extract wealth from the pockets of ordinary working people any longer," insisted the Labour leader.

Mr Corbyn said the likes of business tycoons Sir Philip Green and Mike Ashley were monopolising money that should be shared by everyone.

"We will no longer allow those at the top to leech off of those who bust their guts on zero hours contracts or those forced to make sacrifices to pay their mortgage or their rent.

"Instead of the country's wealth being hidden in tax havens, we will put it in the hands of the people of Britain, as they are the ones who earned it," he said.

“We will build a new economy, worthy of the 21st century and we will build a country for the many not the few,” he added.

The speech came as a poll gave Theresa May’s Tories an even larger lead: 24 points.

But the Labour leader received a rousing reception from loyal supporters when he told them: “Much of the media and Establishment are saying that this election is a foregone conclusion. They think there are rules in politics, which if you don’t follow by doffing your cap to powerful people, accepting that things can’t really change, then you can’t win.

“But of course, they do not want us to win. Because when we win it is the people, not the powerful, who win,” declared Mr Corbyn.

He made clear Labour's manifesto would be "fully costed and will be all accounted for and paid for".

Earlier, speculation mounted about Labour's taxation plans, after John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, suggested the wealthy, whom he defined as earning more than £70,000 a year, should ''pay their way more''.

However, Emily Thornberry, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, played down suggestions new taxes might be introduced at this level, saying she understood why "many people" on this salary might feel they were "not rich".

Labour, she explained, was "prepared to make radical change" and stand up to the elites but stressed that this did not mean "picking off people of particular incomes".

Following his speech in a question and answer session, Mr Corbyn conspicuously failed to answer whether or not he was considering stealing the Liberal Democrats’ main election policy of promising a second referendum on the Brexit deal.

Asked about whether or not he was considering the idea, the party leader replied: "The European Union negotiations are going on and we set out our[red] lines on the negotiation.

"Primarily, it's about getting and retaining tariff-free access to the European market. We haven't threatened to turn Britain into an offshore tax haven on the shores of Europe, undermining the European economy."

Instead, Labour wanted a "good process by which we continue to trade with Europe," he explained, adding: "Walking away and trading under the World Trade Organisation, the manufacturing industry in this country would be extremely damaged."