Jeremy Corbyn Hosts Gerry Adams During Controversial Visit to London (1983)

On 27 July 1983, Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn hosted Gerry Adams, Provisional Sinn Féin MP for West Belfast and alleged senior commander of the Provisional IRA, when the latter made a trip to London at the invitation of Ken Livingstone, then the leader of the Greater London Council. The visit by Adams, who would become Sinn Féin leader just months later in November 1983, was seen as a deliberate attempt to upstage the visit of Irish foreign minister, Peter Barry, who was visiting London in a bid to improve Anglo-Irish relations.

On 28 March 2023, the Labour Party's governing body will vote on a proposal to officially ban Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election. After serving as Labour leader, Mr Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party by his successor, Sir Keir Starmer, following a row over antisemitism. The MP for Islington North now sits as an independent.

Next month will mark 25 years since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on 10 April 1998. Also known as the Belfast Agreement, the signing of the agreement put an end to most of the violence of the Troubles, the conflict in Northern Ireland that had been ongoing since the end of the 1960s. The reaching of the agreement, to which Adams was a signatory as Sinn Féin's president, represented landmark progress in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s.

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