Jeremy Corbyn will run as independent in General Election

Jeremy Corbyn made the announcement in a video posted to his X account (Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)

Jeremy Corbyn has announced he will be standing as an independent candidate for his constituency in the 2024 General Election.

There are a little under six weeks to go until the country goes to the polls for the first time since 2019.

Most polls suggest Labour will sweep to power – but the fight may be feistier thanusual in Islington North, where the ex-leader has decided to run for the seat he’s held since 1983.

The 74-year-old was booted out of the party by his successor Keir Starmer in a row over the extent of antisemitism among members.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak kick-started his whistlestop tour of the UK with stops in Derbyshire, south Wales and Scotland.

Labour leader Keir Starmer, meanwhile, headed straight for the Tory heartland of south-east England where his party is hoping to make inroads.

The two men will face off against each other alongside other party leaders at debates later in the campaign – but they probably won’t be weekly, as the PM has suggested.

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Responding to Sunak’s offer for a TV debate every week, Starmer said he would rather speak to voters as ‘the arguments are going to be exactly the same because we do them every Wednesday at Prime Minister’s Questions’.

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