In August 2015, Brand endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. He said: "Jeremy Corbyn would be a better kind of new Labour. The fear would be, can party politics ever impact the will of the people?" In May 2017, Brand endorsed Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 general election he wrote in "The Huffington Post" that Corbyn "has the qualities I want in a strong and stable leader". He wrote: "Whether it's the Iraq War or badger-baiting, Corbyn has been allied with common sense and compassion in pretty much every Parliamentary argument." He praised Corbyn for his long record of sticking to his principles and for standing up to the media's treatment of him. Regarding the 2015 election he said: "You know I never actually said 'don't vote? I said 'There's no point in voting when the main political parties are basically indistinguishable and the relationship between government, big business and factions of the media make it impossible for the democratic will of the people to be realised, which is a more nuanced point and plainly true. Anyway, that was then and this is now."