What next for Corbyn after Starmer’s move to ban him from standing as a Labour candidate?

Sean O’Grady on whether the former leader could continue as MP for Islington North

Frenemies: Corbyn and Starmer attend an election campaign meeting in 2019 (Reuters)

Keir Starmer is to propose a motion that will make clear that Labour’s ruling national executive committee (NEC) will not endorse the party’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate at the next election. Corbyn said Starmer had “denigrated the democratic foundations” of the party.

How unusual is this?

Lately we have grown used to Corbyn being a rather marginal figure, and one whose stubbornness over antisemitism in the Labour Party saw the whip removed from him in 2020. Though still a Labour member, he sits as an independent and takes no formal part in the organisation of the party in parliament. Now he may find himself deprived of the seat he has held for Labour since 1983.