Jeremy Corbyn to lose seat

The veteran left-winger, who has represented the north London seat in Parliament since 1983, had the Labour whip removed from him in October 2020 after he refused to accept the conclusions of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) report on antisemitism in the Labour Party under his leadership. In a Facebook post, Corbyn said that the scale of antisemitism in the party had been “dramatically overstated” for political reasons by his rivals and the media.

Under Corbyn, the Labour Party was called “institutionally antisemitic” by Jewish MP Luciana Berger who resigned from the party in protest. She since rejoined Labour under Starmer.

Earlier this week, at a Campaign Against Antisemitism hustings event, a Labour spokesperson was challenged for comments made by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer who said he thought Corbyn would have made a better PM than Boris Johnson.