Jeremy Corbyn, who has been the MP for Islington North since 1983, currently sits in the House of Commons as an independent [Simon Lamrock]

JEREMY Corbyn has told the local Labour Party in Islington North that he wants to “carry on” with his job as the area’s MP.

With the party blocking him from standing again, members of the constituency Labour ­Party almost unanimously passed a motion calling for them to have the democratic right to select their own candidate for the next general election.

Ninety-eight per cent voted in favour of the motion, with 60 voting in support and one member abstaining. No one spoke against the motion.

Mr Corbyn himself attended the meeting, which he is allowed to despite having the party’s parliamentary whip removed by leader Sir Keir Starmer. The party’s National Executive Committee in March approved its own motion, brought by Mr Starmer, barring Mr Corbyn from standing for Labour again.

Mr Corbyn, however, thanked members for their support and told them: “I love my job and I want to carry on doing it.”

Later, in a statement to the Tribune, he said: “People in Islington North will not accept a status quo defined by poverty, inequality and insecurity – I am proud to campaign for a fairer society on their behalf.”

Then, on Twitter, Mr Corbyn said he was “proud to represent Islington North in parliament … That is what I’ll continue to do.”

Some have seen these comments as a signal of future plans to run as an independent MP in the next election. Mr Corbyn’s office has not commented on this speculation.

Mr Corbyn has been the MP for Islington North since 1983, and currently sits in the House of Commons as an independent but remains a member of the Labour Party.

In 2020, the Equality and Human Rights Commission found Labour had breached equalities law in relation to anti-Semitism during Mr Corbyn’s leadership. Mr Corbyn responded by saying: “One anti-Semite is one too many, but the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.”

He refused to withdraw these remarks, with Mr Starmer’s supporters insisting that he did not understand the hurt that some Jewish members had felt.

In a statement, North Islington’s CLP said: “We reject the NEC’s undue interference in Islington North, which undermines our goal of defeating the Conservatives and working with our communities for social justice.”