Following his suspension from the party and subsequent ban from running for office again, months of conjecture over the former Labour leader’s political future have come to an end.
After 40 years of representation, Mr. Corbyn declared to the Islington Tribune that he would struggle to hold onto his seat, saying, “We have to stand up and defend our rights.”
“I am here to represent the people of Islington North on exactly the same principles that I’ve stood by my entire life: social justice, human rights, and peace,” he declared, making an appeal to longtime Labour supporters.
In his speech, he continued, saying that “these principles are needed now more than ever before” and vowed to support “a genuine alternative to the corrupt years of this Tory government” that included the Green New Deal, rent controls, public ownership of water and energy, the elimination of the two-child benefit cap, and a moral foreign policy based on human rights and peace.
