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Uproar as Starmer bans Corbyn from standing as Labour candidate at next election
Campaigners slam the move: ‘Labour does not belong to one man but to its members’
File photo dated 06/12/19 of the then Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) alongside the then shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer during a press conference in central London

LABOUR “does not belong to one man but to its members,” campaigners declared today after Sir Keir Starmer vowed Jeremy Corbyn would never again be a Labour MP and told critics of his leadership to quit the party.

The increasingly right-wing Labour leader, who expelled his predecessor from the parliamentary party in 2020, claimed the party he took over nearly three years ago is “unrecognisable and we are not going back.”

In a speech in east London, Sir Keir hailed a decision by watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to lift Labour out of two years of special measures over its “past failings” on anti-semitism.

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