JEREMY CORBYN brings his campaign to become Labour leader home tonight when he stages his 99th and final rally in Islington North.

After speaking to more than 55,000 people at 98 events across Britain this summer, Mr Corbyn will give his final address of the contest in the constituency he has represented in Parliament since 1983.

With voting in Labour’s leadership contest closing at 12 noon today, the rally marks the end of what the leftwinger’s team described as an “astonishing campaign.”

In just two months, Mr Corbyn has been catapulted from being an outsider struggling to get on the ballot to the bookies’ favourite.

The left candidate said his success showed that people were “thirsting for a proper alternative to the current savage cuts.”

He added: “Labour lost the election because they had no clear alternative to the Tories’ unnecessary, self-serving austerity plans.

“I’ve outlined policies which would provide decent jobs, homes and schools, nurture high-tech, socially productive industries and foster a fairer, more inclusive Britain.”

He will discover whether he has beaten Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall to become leader on Saturday.

Centre-left pressure group Compass got its demands of the new leader in early, putting forward 12 policy suggestions in an open letter.

Chairman Neil Lawson suggested the appointment of a woman as a second deputy leader if the elections for leader and deputy leader are both won by men.

The group, which is no longer affiliated to Labour, also suggested that Green MP Caroline Lucas should be invited to chair a Labour policy commission on the environment and the economy.