UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s decision to block his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from standing for Labour at the next election has caused a stir among party ranks, with MPs on the far left openly voicing opposition to his move.
Starmer said on Wednesday that Labour is now “unrecognisable” from its form during Corbyn’s leadership in 2015 to 2020 when it was plagued by allegations of antisemitism.
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking in east London, following the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s announcement that it has concluded its monitoring of the Labour Party, on Feb. 15, 2023. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Media)
Corbyn was suspended from the party in October 2020 after he said the findings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) investigation into allegations of antisemitism in the Labour Party “dramatically overstated” the problem “for political reasons.”He got his party membership back in the following month, but Starmer has refused to give back his party whip, which means that he has been kept out of the parliamentary Labour Party and has continued to be classed as an “independent” MP….