Jeremy Corbyn met with grime star Jme to encourage young people to vote

Jeremy Corbyn has teamed up with grime star Jme in a plea to young people to register to vote.

The MC, whose real name is Jamie Adenuga, took over the Labour leader’s Snapchat to urge young people to submit their application before the May 22 deadline.

Jme, co-founder of the Boy Better Know grime collective and record label, was meeting with Mr Corbyn to discuss the reasons why young people do not register to vote.

The pair recorded a message on Mr Corbyn’s Snapchat, a photo and video sharing service, urging people to register before next week’s deadline.

They were also pictured sitting down together in a café before posing for a photo outside in the sunshine.

Jme shared the photo of the pair with his 697,000 Twitter followers with the caption: "I met Jeremy Corbyn today and explained why bare of us don’t vote. I forgot to ask for a pic, so here’s one I borrowed."

He later tweeted: "Remember, don’t just vote for someone in recommendation. Do your own research. But make sure you register."

Mr Corbyn tweeted a photo of the pair posing for a photo outside.

A surge in votes from young people could offer a boost to Labour’s election prospects. More than half of students are intent on voting Labour, according to a poll published earlier this month.

More than nine out of 10 students who took part in the survey (93 per cent) and were entitled to vote had registered and most said they planned to use their vote on June 8.

Mr Corbyn’s leadership appears to have boosted student support for Labour, which is up from 23 per cent in 2005 to 55 per cent in 2017, according to the poll.

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