Labour donor Michael Foster runs against Corbyn to be party leader

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Michael Foster has declared that he is going to run against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North.

Foster wrote in the Standard Monday, he made his decision with a “heavy heart.”

The donor’s family donated £400,000 to the Labour party since 2010. Foster claims that Corbyn has “no interest” in winning power and said: “He, John McDonnell, Diane Abbott and Emily Thornberry put their idealised socialist utopia -their grasp on power within Labour — above their duty to Britain and to the Labour Party itself.”

“These are despicable acts of selfishness.”