Jeremy Corbyn
British politician
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| January 19 2025 | Corbyn agreed to be interviewed under police caution following a pro-Palestinian rally in central London. |
| 2024 | Corbyn is comfortably re-elected as an independent MP for Islington North, winning by a majority of over 7,000 votes against the Labour candidate Nargund, even as Labour wins a landslide general election victory. |
| 2024 | Corbyn received endorsement from The Muslim Vote and from Mohammed Kozbar, a British imam who had previously made controversial statements about Ahmed Yasin. |
| 2024 | Jeremy Corbyn is expelled from the Labour Party after decades of membership, marking the end of his formal association with the party. |
| 2023 | Following the Hamas attack on Israel, Corbyn initially refused to designate Hamas as a 'terror group' in a television interview, but later wrote in Tribune magazine that Hamas is a 'terrorist organisation'. |
| 2023 | The Daily Telegraph reported on the similarity between Corbyn's 2019 tax policy proposals and subsequent Conservative government implementations. |
| November 2023 | Corbyn co-edited the poetry anthology 'Poetry for the Many' with Len McCluskey, published by OR Books. |
| October 2023 | Media speculation emerges about Jeremy Corbyn potentially contesting the 2024 general election as an Independent candidate, despite not being permitted to stand as a Labour parliamentary candidate. |
| August 2023 | Portsmouth Film Society scheduled two screenings of the documentary. |
| June 25 2023 | Planned screening of the film at Glastonbury Festival 2023 was cancelled by festival organisers after a complaint from Marie van der Zyl of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. |
| February 9 2023 | Documentary 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie' premiered in the UK. |
| July 2022 | The Forde Report was published, concluding that while the leader's office and party staff were trying to win in different ways, it was 'highly unlikely' that internal conflicts cost Labour the 2017 general election. |
| February 24 2022 | On the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Labour chief whip Alan Campbell requested that the 11 Labour MPs who signed the earlier statement withdraw their signatures. While most MPs complied, Corbyn and Claudia Weeke refused to withdraw their signatures. |
| February 18 2022 | Jeremy Corbyn co-signed a Stop the War Coalition statement on the Ukraine crisis, opposing potential war and criticizing NATO's eastward expansion, alongside 11 other Labour MPs. |
| 2021 | During a Cambridge Union event, Corbyn was questioned about his role in the departure of Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger, to which he asserted that she 'was not hounded out of the party.' |
| January 17 2021 | Corbyn officially launched the Peace and Justice Project, with key affiliates including Christine Blower, Len McCluskey, and Zarah Sultana. Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa publicly welcomed the project's creation. |
| 2020 | Final Shadow Cabinet configuration before Corbyn's leadership ends, with positions like Emily Thornberry in Foreign Affairs and Keir Starmer in Brexit continuing until this point. |
| 2020 | Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party after asserting that the scale of antisemitism had been overstated for political reasons. |
| 2020 | Corbyn's former advisor suggested he struggled to empathize with the Jewish community during his leadership, reflecting on internal party debates about special treatment for the community. |
| 2020 | The Equality and Human Rights Commission revealed that Corbyn's office had potentially interfered with an antisemitism investigation. |
| December 13 2020 | Jeremy Corbyn announced the creation of the Peace and Justice Project, a new initiative aimed at promoting social and political activism. |
| November 17 2020 | Is reinstated as a Labour Party member after apologizing for his response to the antisemitism report, though he remains excluded from the parliamentary Labour Party. |
| July 2020 | Corbyn expressed disappointment with the Labour Party's decision to apologize and financially settle defamation cases related to a BBC Panorama programme about antisemitism. |
| June 2020 | In an interview with Middle East Eye, Corbyn described media treatment during his leadership as obsessive and undermining, reflecting on advice from Tony Benn about not pursuing libel cases. |
| May 2020 | The Labour Party National Executive Committee appointed barrister Martin Forde to chair an investigation into the leaked report on antisemitism to analyze its contents and the circumstances of its leak. |
| April 2020 | An internal Labour Party report on antisemitism was leaked to the media, revealing alleged internal conflicts and efforts to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's leadership during the 2017 general election campaign. |
| April 2020 | An internal Labour Party report was leaked, highlighting efforts by party staff to exclude certain members from voting in the leadership contests of 2015 and 2016, with specific focus on Jeremy Corbyn. |
| April 4 2020 | The results of the 2020 Labour Party leadership election were announced, with Keir Starmer winning and succeeding Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party. |
| January 2020 | Bell Ribeiro-Addy, a newcomer MP, was immediately appointed Shadow Minister for Immigration. |
| January 2020 | Thangam Debbonaire replaced Jenny Chapman as Shadow Brexit Minister. |
| January 2020 | Rachael Maskell replaced Laura Pidcock as Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights. |
| January 2020 | Tony Lloyd replaced Lesley Laird as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. |
| January 2020 | Afzal Khan replaced Liz McInnes as Shadow Foreign Office Minister for South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Commonwealth. |
| January 2020 | Cat Smith replaced Jo Platt as Shadow Minister of State for the Cabinet Office. |
| January 2020 | Luke Pollard replaced Sue Hayman as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. |
| January 2020 | Tracy Brabin replaced Tom Watson as Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport after Watson stood down at the election. |
| January 2020 | Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet underwent a significant reshuffle following the 2019 general election, with multiple Shadow Ministers being replaced after losing their seats to Boris Johnson's Conservatives. |
| 2019 | Danielle Rowley briefly serves as Shadow Minister for Climate Justice & Green Jobs |
| 2019 | Jo Platt replaces Laura Smith as Shadow Minister of State for the Cabinet Office. |
| 2019 | Tom Watson steps down as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, leaving the position vacant, signaling internal party changes. |
| 2019 | Shadow Cabinet reshuffled following the 2019 general election. |
| 2019 | Corbyn was accused by the Hindu Council UK of promoting anti-Hindu sentiments during the election campaign. |
| 2019 | Endorsed holding a referendum on Brexit withdrawal agreement, maintaining a personal stance of neutrality. |
| 2019 | Labour Party released its most radical manifesto in decades, proposing widespread nationalisation of key industries and significant policy reforms. |
| 2019 | In the European Parliament election, Labour finished third behind the Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats. |
| 2019 | The Independent Group later rebranded as Change UK. All of the defecting MPs ultimately left Parliament at the 2019 general election, with some losing their seats, while others did not seek re-election, or stood and lost in different constituencies. |
| 2019 | Corbyn was criticized for writing a foreword to a republished book that contained antisemitic assertions, which he later condemned but defended his analysis of the book's content. |
| 2019 | Several British public figures published a letter in The Guardian urging voters to reject Corbyn in the upcoming general election, citing his alleged associations with antisemitism. |
| 2019 | Following the initial resignation of the seven MPs, Joan Ryan joined the breakaway group, while Ian Austin also resigned to sit as an independent. |
| 2019 | In the local elections, Labour's seat total dropped by 84. |
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