Amid Jewish community concern over the restoration of the whip to Abbott, two senior Labour sources have told the JC that her long-term ally Corbyn would not be allowed to return to the party of government. One source suggested that any attempt by Corbyn to apply to rejoin the Labour Party would be rejected by the party’s governing body, the National Executive Committee (NEC). Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party for stating that that the scale of antisemitism in it under his leadership had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons”. The Labour Party was found by the Equality and Human Rights Council (EHRC) to have been responsible for unlawful acts of harassment and discrimination in its report on antisemitism within the party. Corbyn was blocked from standing as a Labour candidate but won his Islington North constituency as an independent.