L ondon mayor Sadiq Khan has responded to Jeremy Corbyn’s ban from standing as a Labour MP, stressing the need for “a permanent change” in the party “to rid it of anti-semitism”. The party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) voted on Tuesday to block the party’s former leader from representing Labour in his Islington North constituency at the next general election. The motion debated by the NEC was put forward by its current leader, Sir Keir Starmer, and was approved by 22 votes, with 12 against. Speaking shortly after the vote, Mr Khan said: “The National Executive Committee had the evidence...