Jeremy Corbyn and four other pro-Gaza Independent MPs have formed the ‘Independent Alliance’ Parliamentary group, making them the joint fifth biggest grouping in the Commons with the same “strength” as Reform and the DUP. The Corbynistas are turning up the heat in their crusade against Starmer…

Independent MPs Shockat Adam, Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamed join the former Labour leader to “hold the government to account” on issues closest to their hearts: winter fuel allowance, the two child benefit cap and ending arms to Israel. Unfortunately for Starmer, now the famous five are a Parliamentary group, they’ll be allotted more airtime at PMQs. If you can’t join them…

Jeremy Corbyn has kept his seat in Islington North as the Independent MP. He’ll stay in the Commons as he has done since 1983…

Guido reported when Corbyn’s first campaign literature dropped. His Labour-esque leaflet bashed the party for not selecting him and touted his many “achievements” while an MP for Islington North. Including “saving the No. 4 bus”…

Corbo, potentially prompted by polling showing he’s headed for a defeat, has ditched that strategy and is going hard on his anti-Labour credentials with the colours of the Palestine flag. His leaflet says you should “Vote to stop NHS privatisation, support renters, oppose the genocide in Gaza and build a real alternative.” 15 Corbyn canvassers at Tufnel Park Station, in between interpretive dance sessions, stressed: “Remember, if you vote for Corbyn, he is an independent”…

Independent leftists are stepping up their campaigns in London. Over in Kentish Town the high street was invaded by megaphone-equipped cars over the weekend promoting independent Holborn & St Pancras candidate Andrew Feinstein, who promises to “say no to austerity and corruption, and say yes to prosperity and equality.“ Guido’s not sure that’ll be enough to lose Starmer his seat…

A Survation poll spells doom for Jezza. The ex-Labour Leader, now an Independent candidate after Starmer gave him the boot, is staring down the barrel of defeat in Islington. He’s lagging 14 points behind Labour’s Praful Nargund, who’s forecast to get more than 40% of the vote. Corbyn’s held onto this patch since 1983, but it looks like his grip is finally slipping…

The poll, commissioned by Stats for Lefties — loyal Corbynistas —cobbled together £6,500 from supporters to see who may win the Labour strong-hold. Economics commentator Chris Giles, noted “Presumably not the result the sponsors of the poll wanted.” Meanwhile, elsewhere a play about a group of Jewish folks plotting to kidnap Corbyn is set to hit the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe…

Keir Starmer said last night that Jeremy Corbyn would have been a better Prime Minister than Boris Johnson. During the BBC Question Time special, he initially dodged backing his 2019 praise of Corbyn, continuing his trend of distancing himself from the left. However, he let slip that he thinks Corbyn would have been better, compared with Boris. An outlandish remark considering Corbyn would have sent the country into ruins -if he does think that then Starmer is far more left-wing than he pretends to be. Is there such thing as a changed Labour Party?

In a particularly tortuous three minutes of Starmer’s phone-in with Nick Ferrari on LBC, a caller asked Keir a simple question: “Without the waffle about believing Labour wouldn’t win the 2019 election just give me a simple yes or no answer had Labour won the election in 2017 or 2019 would you be happy to serve in the cabinet under Prime Minister Corbyn.” Starmer couldn’t…

Starmer eventually got out a defence:

“It’s a pure hypothetical that didn’t cross my mind because I didn’t think we would win… there were important things that I thought needed to be done from the frontbench, to continue and complete on the Brexit work to make it absolutely clear that the Labour Party never deviated from our position on NATO, uh and to do the necessary work on anti-Semitism.”

Does being in the shadow cabinet no longer mean you’d serve in the actual cabinet? Ferrari pointed out that Starmer trashed the Tory manifesto as “Corbyn-like” despite being in the room to approve and sign off on Corbyn’s manifesto itself. Eventually Starmer said: “after we lost that badly we did have a soul search in the Labour Party and we actually did a report on this that was commissioned for me – one of the things that was very very clear coming back from the voters was um we didn’t think that the Manifesto was deliverable.” An admission that he believed it would work when he campaigned for Corbyn and signed off on it…