Jeremy Corbyn

The party's ruling NEC today voted 22-12 in favour of a motion in the name of Keir Starmer which said Labour's chances of winning the next election would be “ ...

[a “flagrant attack” on democracy over his attempts to block him as a candidate.](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/corbyn-starmer-flagrant-attack-on-democracy_uk_63ed1ebfe4b022eb3e3425ea) Starmer’s motion said the “Labour Party’s standing with the electorate in the country, and its electoral prospects in seats it is required to win in order to secure a parliamentary majority and/or win the next general election, are both significantly diminished should Mr Corbyn be endorsed by the Labour Party as one of its candidates for the next general election”. [Keir Starmer](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/keir-starmer/) which said Labour’s chances of winning the next election would be “significantly diminished” if he is allowed to run again in Islington North.

Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) has backed a motion from leader Sir Keir Starmer saying it will not endorse his predecessor.

A spokesperson said: "Keir Starmer was elected on a pledge to end NEC stitch-ups and let local members decide their candidates. Neither is our determination to stand up for a better world." "I will not be intimidated into silence. Sir Keir's motion said Mr Corbyn "will not be endorsed by the NEC as a candidate on behalf of the Labour Party at the next general election". The 73 year old accused Sir Keir of having "launched an assault on the rights of his own Labour members" and breaking a pledge to build a united and democratic party. Jeremy Corbyn has called his ban from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election a "shameful attack on party democracy" and vowed to "not be intimidated into silence".

Mr Corbyn share of the voted peaked at 73% at the 2017 general election.

There is the potential for Labour’s vote to drop, with some former supporters voting for Mr Corbyn instead of the new Labour candidate, or voting for another party, or even not voting at all. The unusual circumstances of that election saw Mr Corbyn become Labour MP for Islington North with just 40% of the vote – below the combined total for the Mr O’Halloran then failed to be selected as the SDP’s candidate for Islington North at the 1983 election and instead chose to stand as an independent.

Ex-Labour leader says he has 'no intention of stopping the fight' as Keir Starmer faces fierce criticism from left.

The motion to ban Jeremy Corbyn from restanding is divisive, an attack on party democracy and a distraction from the vital task of getting the Tories out. The former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: “With [an] election in 18 months we need a united party to win a Labour government. Nadia Whittome, the MP for Nottingham East, added: “It should be up to local members in Islington North to decide who represents them. “We’re not scared, but who wants to follow Corbyn out the door? “Now, more than ever, we should be offering a bold alternative to the government’s programme of poverty, division and repression. That is not the way we do politics.”

Labour's governing body - the National Executive Committee (NEC) - signed off a motion proposed by Keir Starmer not to endorse the former leader at the next ...

That is the background of this. "It's about one thing, which is about Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to the EHRC report on antisemitism and his refusal to apologise for that reaction. [Jeremy Corbyn](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/jeremy-corbyn) should be a candidate at the election and that is obviously a decision the National Executive will have to make." I hope it’s withdrawn or rejected." [BBC](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/bbc) Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm not privy to exactly what goes on in the National Executive, but I don't think there is any mystery about the background to today's discussion at the National Executive Committee. [Labour Party](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/labour-party) at the next general election".

"I have spent my life fighting for a fairer society on behalf of the people of Islington North, and I have no intention of stopping now.”

So I think it’s a really bad mistake.” We need to mobilise the whole of the party: left, right and centre. “I will not be intimidated into silence. [John McDonnell](https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/john-mcdonnell/), who was shadow chancellor when Corbyn was leader, told Times Radio: “We’ve got a general election in 18 months time. I have spent my life fighting for a fairer society on behalf of the people of Islington North, and I have no intention of stopping now.” The former party leader said: “I have spent my life fighting for a fairer society on behalf of the people of Islington North, and I have no intention of stopping now.”