Jeremy Corbyn has won Islington North, the constituency he has represented since 1983 – but for the first time elected as an independent MP. The former leader of the opposition beat Praful Nargund, a local Labour councillor selected by the party’s executive committee as their candidate in May. Corbyn won 24,120 votes, with Nargund winning 16,873 votes. Turnout for the election was 67.5%, down from 2019’s 71.6%. Corbyn, 75, was blocked from standing as a Labour candidate in March 2023 by Keir Starmer, but announced soon after the election was called that he would be standing as an independent, leading...