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Corbyn responded to Starmer's claim of knowing the party would lose the 2019 election by saying "Well, he never said that to me, at any time. And so I just think rewriting history is no help. It shows double standards, shall we say, that he now says he always thought that but he never said it at the time or anything about it. He was part of the campaign. He and I spoke together at events and I find it actually quite sad."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-13 |title=Jeremy Corbyn accuses Keir Starmer of rewriting history |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn008x70kr6o |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
A poll released just over two weeks before the election showed Corbyn in second behind Labour candidate Praful Nargund.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shock Poll Shows It’s Down to the Wire for Corbyn in Islington North |url=https://novaramedia.com/2024/06/25/shock-poll-shows-its-down-to-the-wire-for-corbyn-in-islington-north/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=Novara Media |language=en}}</ref> Leading members of the Islington North CLP resigned in order to support Corbyn, while also criticising the manner in which Nargund was selected as Islington North's candidate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Islington: Local Labour members resign to campaign for Corbyn |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgejv0xxg2o |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Corbyn would be comfortably re-elected as an independent, even as Labour won a landslide victory in the general election. Corbyn's majority over Nargund was over 7,000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tahir |first=Tariq |date=2024-07-05 |title=Jeremy Corbyn re-elected: Chants of 'Free Palestine' as former leader beats Labour |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uk/2024/07/05/jeremy-corbyn-re-elected-chants-of-free-palestine-as-former-leader-beats-labour/ |access-date=2024-07-06 |website=The National |language=en}}</ref>
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