Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn won his seat, beating the candidate of the Labour Party he used to lead and promising to be a thorn in the side of Keir Starmer‘s incoming govt after an acrimonious falling out with his successor.
He quit as Labour chief in 2019 after the party suffered its worst poll defeat since 1935, and Starmer threw him out of the party less than a year later, accusing him of undermining efforts to tackle anti-Semitism.
In a bitterly contested vote in Corbyn’s north London constituency of Islington North, which he has represented since 1983, he hung on to the seat, defeating Labour’s Indian-origin candidate Praful Nargund by 24,120 votes to 16,873.
An ardent pro-Palestinian activist, Corbyn said the people were “looking for a govt that on the world stage will search for peace, not war.” Reuters
He quit as Labour chief in 2019 after the party suffered its worst poll defeat since 1935, and Starmer threw him out of the party less than a year later, accusing him of undermining efforts to tackle anti-Semitism.
In a bitterly contested vote in Corbyn’s north London constituency of Islington North, which he has represented since 1983, he hung on to the seat, defeating Labour’s Indian-origin candidate Praful Nargund by 24,120 votes to 16,873.
An ardent pro-Palestinian activist, Corbyn said the people were “looking for a govt that on the world stage will search for peace, not war.” Reuters