Hardcore followers say they would vote for Corbyn over party, but others say Labour is right to move on

Brandishing the meal he calls his “Jeremy Corbyn falafel”, Hussein Jabar’s reaction to the news that the former Labour leader would be prevented from standing for the party was one you might expect from a man who has emblazoned his cafe with images of the Islington North MP.

“There’s no question – Jeremy every time,” said the owner of Gadz Cafe in Finsbury Park, the nearest thing to a Corbyn shrine in a constituency where many view him as nothing less than a political deity, when asked which way he would vote if the MP faced an official Labour candidate in the next general election.

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