Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn rejects claims of betrayal as he launches his campaign as an independent.
Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has rejected claims that he is betraying his former party by choosing to stand as an independent candidate in Islington North at the general election.in March 2023, after he had previously been suspended from Labour over his response to a report into antisemitism in the party during his time as leader.
Speaking to BBC London, Labour's leader from 2015 to 2020 said: “I was denied the right to even be considered as a Labour candidate. At the time, the Labour Party said Mr Corbyn had been suspended for "a failure to retract his words", but Mr Corbyn called the move "political". Mr Corbyn stepped down as Labour leader after the party’s worst election defeat since the 1930s at the last general election in 2019.Asked how he felt about his replacement's focus on changing the party since then, Mr Corbyn said Sir Keir Starmer had been "very happy to be in the cabinet” under Mr Corbyn, adding: “I don’t think there’s any need to diss the past or diss his involvement in it”.
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