Corbyn responds to Starmer saying he was never a 'friend'

Sir Keir Starmer has made yet another brutal dig at his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn.

The Labour leader revealed he would not wave at the Islington North MP if he saw him across the street.

Asked in an interview with the Evening Standard what he would do, Sir Keir said: “Not much.”

Pressed on whether he would wave, he added: “No. The Labour Party has changed so much.

“Jeremy Corbyn is not sitting as an MP, he doesn’t represent the Labour Party. And I’m taking the Labour Party forwards, not backwards.”

Sir Keir also said he has not spoken to Mr Corbyn, who currently sits as an independent MP in the Commons, since the damning Equality and Human Rights Commission report on antisemitism in Labour was published in 2020.

The swipe comes months after Sir Keir denied the veteran left-winger was ever his “friend”.

The Labour leader repeatedly insisted he never considered Mr Corbyn as a “friend” during a phone-in on LBC in April despite it being pointed out that he previously used the term to describe him.

But in response, Mr Corbyn accused Sir Keir of “primary school stuff”.

It comes as Sir Keir, who served in Mr Corbyn’s shadow cabinet, has sought to distance himself from his predecessor, who led Labour to two general election defeats. 

Mr Corbyn currently sits as an independent MP in the Commons after losing the Labour whip in an antisemitism row in 2020.

Sir Keir has blocked him from standing as the Labour candidate in the London seat he has represented since 1983 at the next general election.

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