7 Labour MPs Stand Down as Fertility Entrepreneur Picked to Face Jeremy Corbyn

Seven veteran Labour MPs have stood down in the past few days, paving the way for Sir Keir Starmer to impose candidates on a number of safe seats. It comes after Labour picked Praful Nargund, an entrepreneur in the fertility industry, to challenge former leader Jeremy Corbyn in his Islington North stronghold. The selection, announced on Friday, is one of a string of late picks made by the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) in which candidates have been imposed on local activists. Over the last few days seven Labour MPs—Virendra Sharma, Julie Elliott, John Cryer, John Spellar, Kevin Brennan, Barbara Keeley, and Lyn Brown—announced they were retiring, which opens the way for more imposed candidates....