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UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer blocked his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a candidate for the party at the next general election, as the opposition seeks to draw a line under the antisemitism scandals that have plagued its recent past.
“Jeremy Corbyn will not stand for Labour at the next general election,†Starmer said morning, in a categorical rejection of
the left-wing former leader’s stance on antisemitism. Starmer was speaking after the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Britain’s equality regulator, said Labour had made the changes required to address breaches of the Equality Act during Corbyn’s tenure.
The commission had put the party on notice in 2020 that it could face legal action if it failed to change its culture after being found responsible for acts
of harassment and
discrimination against Jewish people. Corbyn, an MP since 1983, was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party in October 2020 after he criticised the initial EHRC report.