Keir Starmer makes one other brutal dig at Jeremy Corbyn in blunt interview

Sir Keir Starmer has made yet one more brutal dig at his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn.

The Labour chief revealed he wouldn’t wave on the Islington North MP if he noticed him throughout the road.

Asked in an interview with the Evening Standard what he would do, Sir Keir mentioned: “Not much.”

Pressed on whether or not he would wave, he added: “No. The Labour Party has changed so much.

“Jeremy Corbyn just isn’t sitting as an MP, he doesn’t symbolize the Labour Party. And I’m taking the Labour Party forwards, not backwards.”

Sir Keir also said he has not spoken to Mr Corbyn, who currently sits as an independent MP in the Commons, since the damning Equality and Human Rights Commission report on antisemitism in Labour was published in 2020.

The swipe comes months after Sir Keir denied the veteran left-winger was ever his “good friend”.

The Labour leader repeatedly insisted he never considered Mr Corbyn as a “good friend” during a phone-in on LBC in April despite it being pointed out that he previously used the term to describe him.

But in response, Mr Corbyn accused Sir Keir of “major college stuff”.

It comes as Sir Keir, who served in Mr Corbyn’s shadow cupboard, has sought to distance himself from his predecessor, who led Labour to 2 basic election defeats. 

Mr Corbyn at present sits as an impartial MP within the Commons after shedding the Labour whip in an antisemitism row in 2020.

Sir Keir has blocked him from standing because the Labour candidate within the London seat he has represented since 1983 on the subsequent basic election.