The Corbynites might have been routed but there’s still one area where they hold sway. In Islington North, the home patch of Jeremy Corbyn, Labour members are still staying loyal to their local MP and former party leader. The magic Grandpa has sat for the seat for 40 years but was blocked from standing as a party candidate earlier this year.
Yet that didn’t stop members of Islington North CLP overwhelmingly endorsing Corbyn last night in an act of open defiance. By a whopping 98 per cent they passed a motion at its monthly general meeting:
This CLP would like to thank our sitting MP J Corbyn for his commitment and service to the people, and want to express that it should be our democratic right to select our MP.
Some Keirleaders have been excitedly claiming that ‘just’ 60 attended the meeting last night out of a local membership of 4,000. But as Patrick Maguire of the Times pointed out, only delegates to the CLP’s general committee from each branch and affiliated union can vote.
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