Jeremy Corbyn no longer Labour member and will stand as independent at election

Credit: Jeremy Corbyn / BBC Breakfast Jeremy Corbyn has been informed he is no longer a member of the Labour Party after he announced he is standing as an independent candidate in the General Election. The former Labour leader, who was blocked from standing again for his old party, on Friday said he will seek election in the Islington North constituency he has represented for 40 years. Sir Keir Starmer said his predecessor’s move was “a matter for Jeremy”, as he defended his decision to ban Mr Corbyn from standing for Labour as part of his efforts to “tear antisemitism out of our party by the roots”. Mr Corbyn has been suspended by Labour since 2020 after he refused to fully accept the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s findings that the party broke equality law when he was in charge and said antisemitism had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons”.