Jeremy Corbyn ‘will not stand at next election as Labour Party candidate’, says Keir Starmer

Mr Starmer has long indicated Mr Corbyn will not be standing again for Labour but this is the first time he confirmed the barring of the veteran MP who led the party to two election defeats.

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer vowed the job to drive out anti-Jewish racism was not over (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Keir Starmer has for the first time unequivocally barred Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election as he invited his critics to leave the party.

On what he described as an “important moment” for Labour, Mr Starmer welcomed the equalities watchdog’s decision to lift the party out of special measures over its past failings on antisemitism.