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From the newsletter: Westminster's new battle-lines have been drawn - and they look awfully familiar.

It comes as Labour MP Tahir Ali said: "The decision was taken by George Bush and by Tony Blair to go to war and the Afghan people are now paying the price."

The 85-year-old filmmaker he had been ejected after refusing to “disown” critics from the Labour left.

"I’m going to report this blatant example of cronyism to the man responsible for rooting out cronyism", wrote David Schneider.

“Everyone kind of loves the prime minister. He’s incredibly popular in the country.”

Jeremy Corbyn called the deportation “the continuation of an unnecessarily harsh approach that ought to have been abandoned on the back of lessons learnt from the Windrush scandal”.

Accusing Sir Keir Starmer of “outright assault on the Left”, Williamson said it was “time to accelerate efforts to create a genuinely anti-imperialist, socialist party”. Does it matter?

“I think it is so important that we all come together and fight to reinstate Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour Party. I stand with Jeremy.”

Leading figures on the left have responded to the news of Corbyn's suspension. Here are some of the most significant reactions.