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‘No way I’d take on Corbyn’: Labour safe seat turns toxic over MP’s whip removal
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Nov 26, 2022 05:38pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Nov 12, 2022 12:00pm |
| Description | It is hard to find a more Labour-dominated part of the country than the London seat of Islington North. Yet should you ask Labour members which candidate they will be backing at the next election, there is nervousness, hesitation and hushed tones.
Jeremy Corbyn, the local MP in the seat for the last 39 years, is currently an independent MP having been stripped of the Labour party whip. He retains significant local support, but should he decide to run as an independent candidate at the next election, every Labour member in the seat will face a choice – campaign for the party’s candidate, or campaign for Corbyn and risk expulsion.
A series of Labour figures in the seat spoke to the Observer about the current impasse but, in a sign of the tensions and paranoia the situation has created, all spoke on condition of anonymity. “If the whip is not restored, people will be compelled to make a decision on their support for Jeremy,” said one senior party figure in the seat supportive of Corbyn.
“There are quite a few people who will support Jeremy. Many people have that view. Like many in the local area, we are very disappointed and crestfallen that the party has taken the whip away. All this is completely unnecessary.”
Corbyn was suspended from Labour in 2020 after the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report that found “serious failings in the Labour party leadership in addressing antisemitism”. Corbyn later stated that the scale of antisemitism had been “dramatically overstated”. He has since been readmitted to the party, but current leader Keir Starmer has refused to restore the Labour whip. |
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