Khan tried politics once, as a candidate for the Socialist Labour Party.

It comes after a copy of the constitution of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP) was leaked to the London Independent.

Mr Scargill is to stand for the Socialist Labour Party, which he founded when Labour abolished its commitment to public ownership in Clause Four.

Ms Brenda Nixon, the candidate of Mr Arthur Scargill's fledgling Socialist Labour Party, came in fourth with just over 5 per cent of the vote.

Unlike Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader who founded the Socialist Labour party that Crow briefly joined, Crow always put his members first.