Labour: Let Corbyn stand! Labour left: Stay in there!
Keir Starmer used a speech welcoming the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) end to its monitoring of the Labour Party for antisemitism to rule out Jeremy Corbyn standing as a Labour candidate in the next election. In Labour’s rules, Starmer has no power to making that ruling. But selections in the last 18 months have shown the right-controlled National Executive (NEC) doing effectively whatever it likes. Previous guarantees that candidates with enough branch or union backing would automatically make longlists or shortlists have vanished. Former MPs have been prevented from standing...