Labour Party members are set to be warned against backing Jeremy Corbyn and other left-wing candidates running as independent MPs in a new clause that will be heard at the Liverpool conference this week.
Sir Keir Starmer’s war with the left-wing faction of the party has been well-documented after a number of high-profile battles played out in the public eye.
Former Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad was blocked from standing as a Labour MP last year in a move which sparked outrage among local campaigners, while Jamie Driscoll, the left wing mayor of North Tyneside, was excluded as a mayoral candidate after appearing on onstage with director Ken Loach.
There are also suggestions that Diane Abbott could launch an independent campaign if she is not allowed back in the parliamentary party.
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP had the whip removed in April after she suggested in a letter to the Observer that Jewish, Irish and Traveller people were not subject to racism “all their lives”.
The “Corbyn clause”, if approved, would mean party membership being stripped from anyone who gives “financial support or assistance” to a candidate who declares an intention to stand in opposition to Labour.
Mr Corbyn has hinted he will run as an independent in the Islington North seat he has held for 40 years, telling The London Economic he is going nowhere:
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