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Jeremy Corbyn to run against Labour as an independent, say allies [1]

['Patrick Maguire', 'Red Box Editor', 'Geraldine Scott', 'Political Reporter', 'The Times Leading Articles']

Date: 2023-03

Jeremy Corbyn has been the MP for Islington North since 1983

‘It’s become personal. There will be an announcement by the end of the week’

Jeremy Corbyn has resolved to run against Labour as an independent candidate at the next general election, The Times has learnt, as the former leader warns that he is “not going anywhere”.

Friends of the MP for Islington North said that he will confirm his intention to run as an independent as early as this week if Labour’s ruling national executive committee approves his successor’s plan to bar him from standing for election under the party’s banner.

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Corbyn’s decision follows months of speculation over his intentions in the event that Sir Keir Starmer moved to formally block him from standing as a Labour candidate. It sets up an ugly electoral battle that some shadow cabinet ministers fear Corbyn win, four decades after he first took

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[1] Url: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-to-block-jeremy-corbyn-from-standing-as-labour-mp-w6nm9kr9p

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