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An election took place in the north London constituency of Islington North on 4 July 2024,[1] as part of the 2024 United Kingdom general election. Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labour Party, was re-elected by standing as an independent against the official Labour Party candidate, with a reduced majority of 7,247.
Corbyn was not allowed to stand for re-election as a Labour candidate by new Labour leader Keir Starmer. Corbyn had been suspended as a Labour MP in 2020 after he downplayed the severity of antisemitism in the party, which he described as exaggerated by his critics. This followed a critical report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) that highlighted serious flaws in the party's handling of antisemitism complaints, and found the Party had committed "unlawful acts" during his tenure as leader.[2] Corbyn has repeatedly denied he holds any racist views.[3][4][5] After announcing he would stand as an independent candidate at the election, Corbyn was fully expelled from the Labour Party.[6][7] The Islington Tribune, a local newspaper, described the Islington North election as something we "have not seen before in our lives".[8]
On election day, Corbyn won the election with a majority of over 7,000 votes, although this was a reduction from his previous majority of 26,188 when he stood as the Labour candidate in the 2019 general election.
- ^ "General elections". parliament.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
The maximum term of a Parliament is five years from the day on which it first met. The current Parliament first met on Tuesday 17 December 2019 and will automatically dissolve on Tuesday 17 December 2024, unless it has been dissolved sooner by the King.
- ^ "Investigation into the Labour Party". Equality and Human Rights Commission. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Jeremy Corbyn: It's 'offensive' to call me anti-Semitic". POLITICO. 23 September 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Corbyn decries anti-Semitism as 'vile and wrong' following chief rabbi's rebuke". The Times of Israel. Jerusalem. 26 November 2019. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's anti-Semitism row explained". 27 April 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ Adu, Aletha (24 May 2024). "Jeremy Corbyn to stand as independent at general election". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
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:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Loubser, Isabel (14 June 2024). "Polling appeal in election like we 'have not seen before in our lives'". Islington Tribune. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
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