Faiza Shaheen, who was blocked from representing the Labour Party in the general election, has announced she will stand as an independent. Ms Shaheen, who initially won the Labour nomination for Chingford and Woodford Green, said she had decided to run as an independent after voters told her they felt "disenfranchised" by the party's decision to remove her as a candidate. Labour removed Ms Shaheen as its candidate for the London constituency after she allegedly liked a series of social media posts that downplayed antisemitism accusations. Yesterday she announced she had resigned from Labour, whom she accused of embodying a...