Labour has announced whether its sitting MPs will step down or fight again at the next election in nearly every single constituency. By a weird coincidence, it stays silent about the one constituency Labour party members and the wider public are most interested in: Jeremy Corbyn’s Islington North.
Sir Keir Starmer withdrew the whip from Corbyn because of the ex-leader’s response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission report on anti-Jewish racism in the Labour party. Rather than, for example, apologising for prejudice on his watch, Corbyn insisted that antisemitism had been ‘dramatically overstated for political reasons’ by his opponents.
They’re not frightened of Jeremy Corbyn the man. They’re frightened of his followers
Starmer said in December that ‘he doesn’t see the circumstances’ in which Labour will allow its former leader to stand as its candidate.
If that were the end of it, ambitious politicians would be lining up to fight for the Islington North Labour nomination.
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