Another day with more Starmer drama. Sir Keir yesterday told a press conference that Jeremy Corbyn will be barred from standing as a Labour candidate at the next election, a decision that hasn’t gone down very well with the magic Grandpa. Corbyn has now released an angry statement, accusing the man who replaced him as Labour leader of a ‘flagrant attack’ on democracy. In a lengthy statement on Twitter, he declared that:
Any attempt to block my candidacy is a denial of due process, and should be opposed by anybody who believes in the value of democracy. At a time when the government is overseeing the worst cost of living crisis in a generation, this is a divisive distraction from our overriding goal: to defeat the Conservative party at the next general election.
Has it occurred to Jezza that, er, his presence in parliament might actually be an impediment to that same ‘overriding goal’? Regardless of what Sir Keir does, Corbyn still reportedly intends to put himself forward for selection in his constituency Labour party in Islington North, where he still retains a solid support base.
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