Corbyn will ‘never again run for Parliament as a Labour candidate’
The former Labour leader, who had the whip withdrawn in 2020 following an investigation into antisemitism, now seems banned for good.
Jeremy Corbyn’s days as a Labour MP are over for good, senior party sources claim.
A report in the Guardian quotes insiders as saying the former Labour leader, who has been suspended from the party since 2020, has now been permanently removed.
The newspaper quotes one source as saying: “Jeremy Corbyn is never getting back in. He would be toxic to our chances of winning back some of the seats we need to win back.”
The report comes one day after Labour leader Keir Starmer told the Sunday Express that it was “very difficult to see the circumstances in which” Corbyn would return as an MP for his party.
He was asked by Starmer to apologise for saying that allegations of antisemitism were overblown during his tenure as Party leader. He refused to do so and had the whip withdrawn.
Corbyn is known to want to run for Parliament in his Islington North seat, regardless of whether he does so as an independent. Momentum, a left-wing grassroots group, is understood to want to support him.
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