{"id":89062,"date":"2024-07-06T12:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/jeremy-corbyn-wins-election-against-labour-party-he-once-led\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T12:49:10","slug":"jeremy-corbyn-wins-election-against-labour-party-he-once-led","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/06\/jeremy-corbyn-wins-election-against-labour-party-he-once-led\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Corbyn Wins Election Against Labour, Party He Once Led"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/04\/multimedia\/04uk-blog-corbyn-lghb\/04uk-blog-corbyn-lghb-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jeremy Corbyn Wins Election Against Labour, Party He Once Led\" title=\"Jeremy Corbyn Wins Election Against Labour, Party He Once Led\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jeremy Corbyn, an independent candidate running for Parliament, won his seat against a candidate from the Labour party, which he once led.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was a vindication for Mr. Corbyn, who was running for the first time against the party he led from 2015 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Corbyn, who has held the seat since 1983, was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/29\/world\/europe\/jeremy-corbyn-labour-anti-semitism.html\" title=\"\">suspended<\/a> as Labour leader and eventually purged by the party over his response to allegations of antisemitism during his tenure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many in his constituency \u2014 an area of London with pockets of deep wealth alongside deprivation \u2014 the race meant choosing between a longstanding affinity for Labour and a politician who had represented the area for more than 40 years and was a deeply familiar presence in the community. For others, Mr. Corbyn\u2019s handling of alleged antisemitism on the hard-left of the Labour Party while he was its leader was an enduring stain on his reputation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Heading into Election Day, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/politics\/articles\/49950-final-yougov-mrp-shows-labour-on-course-for-historic-election-victory\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a poll by YouGov<\/a> had declared the race to be a tossup, with the Labour candidate, Praful Nargund, holding a slight lead over Mr. Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Paul Anthony Ogunwemimo, who said he had lived in the area for 14 years, called Mr. Corbyn \u201ca very nice man.\u201d But he had voted for the Labour candidate on Thursday, he said, largely to support Keir Starmer, who replaced Mr. Corbyn as the head of the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hibbah Filli, who was born and raised in Mr. Corbyn\u2019s constituency, said many of her friends and family members had voted for him in the past as \u201cmore of a Labour thing.\u201d Voting for the first time on Thursday, she said she had backed Mr. Corbyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI feel like he\u2019s very dedicated to the community,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel like he\u2019s done a good job for a long time, and I feel like we need a diverse range of voices in Parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/04\/world\/europe\/corbyn-london-labour-election.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Corbyn, an independent candidate running for Parliament, won his seat against a candidate from the Labour party, which he once led. It was a vindication for Mr. Corbyn, who was running for the first time against the party he led from 2015 to 2020. Mr. Corbyn, who has held the seat since 1983, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/04\/multimedia\/04uk-blog-corbyn-lghb\/04uk-blog-corbyn-lghb-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40050,50,1977,843,2295,1697,8613],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89064,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89062\/revisions\/89064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}