Labour Party hits joint-lowest level of support in polling history
A new poll puts Jeremy Corbyn’s party in fourth place with just 18 per cent of the vote.
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Labour Party members say #expelmetoo after party banishes Alastair Campbell
Prominent Labour Party members have rallied around the hashtag #expelmetoo following yesterday’s decision to banish Alastair Campbell from the party for voting Liberal Democrat in last week’s European elections. The former spin doctor was expelled within 24 hours of admitting on live TV he had switched support for that election ...
Labour Party expels Alastair Campbell for voting Liberal Democrat
The Labour Party has expelled Alastair Campbell after Tony Blair’s former spin doctor voted for the Liberal Democrats in the European elections. Alastair Campbell has been a very vocal campaigner for a second referendum on Brexit and had switched his vote for the Lib Dems who were unambiguously campaigning for ...
Newly elected Lib Dem councillor gives this excuse after filmed removing Labour Party leaflets
LEAFLETGATE UPDATE: Earlier we reported how newly elected Newton, Merseyside Lib Dem councillor David Smith has been reported reaching into people’s front doors and removing rival leaflets during the local elections campaign. After the St Helens local election candidate was recorded on residents' security cameras appearign to wear dark glasses ...
Corbyn “disappointed” as seven MPs leave Labour party
Seven Labour MPs have quit the party and will sit as an independent group in the House of Commons. The MPs who have left Labour are Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gape, Gavin Shuker and Anne Coffey. Luciana Berger told a press conference to announce the ...
Latest unearthed historical Eurosceptic Corbyn speech adds to Labour Party tensions
New video show Labour leader's hardline stance
If the Labour Party really cared about workers it would turn its back on Brexit
"The Labour Party has always been about people", the party's website proudly states on its legacy page. It was formed to give ordinary people a voice and has "sought power in order to improve their lives", with achievements from the NHS to the welfare state that have made a lasting difference to ...
Labour Party reports newspapers to press regulator over Corbyn Tunisia memorial reports
The Labour party has made a formal complaint to the press regulator over newspaper coverage of Jeremy Corbyn’s attendance at a memorial to those killed when Israel bombed the Tunisian PLO headquarters. The Labour leader, a backbencher back in 2014 was attending a conference at the invitation of the Tunisian ...
Labour Party is considering policy to tax self-service checkouts
The Labour Party is considering a policy to tax self-service checkouts in supermarkets - because they rob till workers of their jobs. The motion was approved by the St Ives Constituency Labour Party at a meeting in January. Members argued that a levy should be imposed on supermarkets because the ...
Iain McNicol mysteriously quits as Labour Party General Secretary
There was speculation after Iain McNicol announced that he would be standing down as the General Secretary of the Labour Party on Friday evening. The shock resignation had not been anticipated even by many of his close colleagues. He will stay in his role until the Labour NEC recommends a successor ...
Is Farage’s “slip of the tongue” a ruse to destroy the Labour Party?
I doubt I'm the only one in Britain currently feeling uneasy: the world seems to have gone a little bit topsy-turvy, hasn't it? For months and months, even the vaguest suggestion of a second referendum, or a 'final say' on the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union, well... ...
Scottish Labour Party leadership victory for Richard Leonard as Kezia Dugdale goes on I’m a Celebrity
Scottish Labour have announced their new leader -Richard Leonard – a big victory for the left of the party, which will be seen as Jeremy Corbyn shoring up his hold on the party. The candidate of the left immediately called for unity after a hotly fought and bitter Scottish Labour ...
“Confident, Assured And Comfortable” – Commentators’ Early Verdicts On Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party Conference Speech
In a performance that even critics would regard as confident and signalling Jeremy Corbyn is as he said today ready to be "on the threshold of power", the leader of the Labour Party ended an interesting Brighton Conference on a high note with a speech taht brought the house down. ...
“We are now the political mainstream” – Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party Conference Speech in full:
This is Jeremy Corbyn MP's speech to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in full. To a rapturous reception, the leader of the Labour Party declared: “we are now the political mainstream!” And he warned Theresa May that the Labour Party are more prepared than ever to fight another general election. The ...
This Labour Party conference speech by 16-year-old Lauren Stocks is going viral
An emotive speech by 16-year-old Lauren Stocks is going viral after she shed light on the state of Britain's schools. The GCSE student won a standing ovation following the speech which touched on the mental health of students and their well-being. Stocks rubbished statistics that found three in ten children in ...
Theresa May’s U-turns shows her abject disregard of any risk posed by the Labour party
By Marcus Hendriks Today, in an 11.15am special statement, Theresa May announced that she will be calling a snap General Election on 8th June. Following expected the parliamentary approval of a two thirds majority, the United Kingdom is destined to have its first snap election since Margaret Thatcher’s victory ...
Pro-Corbyn union chief suspended by Labour Party
A key ally for Jeremy Corbyn, Ronnie Draper, has been cast out of the Labour Party, supposedly for comments made on social media, which have not been reported at this present time. Draper, from the Bakers, Food and allied Workers Union, which has around twenty thousand members took to social ...
Labour Party Gains 100k New Members Since EU Referendum
The Labour Party has gained 100,000 new members since the EU referendum, taking it up to around half a million members. The previous peak under Tony Blair of 405,000 has now easily been surpassed under Jeremy Corbyn's reign, as the outspoken leader appeals to more grassroot supporters. Despite Corbyn losing ...
PMQs Sketch 23rd March – Labour Party upgraded to “Mostly Hostile”
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The old saying is keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I guess it is easier just to make everyone your enemy, then you don’t have to worry where anybody is; takes the pressure off, I suppose. It wasn’t supposed to be this way ...
Why am I supporting Corbyn? It’s my dad running the Labour Party
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor When I was a little boy my sister and I would sit on the top of the stairs and listen to my mum and dad and their mates drink, play the guitar (badly) but mainly discuss their left wing political beliefs. My old man would ...
Labour is the only party treating both sides of the Brexit divide with respect
Jeremy Corbyn’s policy to stop no-deal and then treat both sides with respect by re-negotiating the deal and having a public vote on the outcome is the only way to unite the country.
Farage urges Tories to give Brexit Party a free run at Labour seats
“Together we would be unstoppable", the former Ukip leader wrote.
Labour has eradicated anti-Semitism from party, claims Lord Hattersley
The peer, who was speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s slow response to the issue.
Labour calls Brexit Party’s Peterborough by-election claims ‘nonsense’
Nigel Farage’s party called for an inquiry into allegations of ‘vote-rigging’ in the election narrowly won by Labour. The Brexit Party’s claims that vote-rigging may have played a role in Labour’s wafer-thin victory in the Peterborough by-election have been branded a “desperate attempt” to excuse a defeat. Labour also described ...
Labour regains lead in the polls as Brexit Party slips
The Labour Party has retaken the lead in the polls and is now up 4 points at 26 per cent of voting intentions as the post-European Parliament election boost for the Brexit Party fades.
Conservatives minus the Brexit Party = Labour government
It’s hardly as eloquent as e=mc2, but the formula for winning the next general election could be relatively simple for Labour. With results in from last night’s by-election there’s plenty of reasons to be cheerful in the Labour camp. The Conservatives suffered their worst loss in a Peterborough election since ...
Farage sneaks out of Peterborough byelection count early as Labour stops predicted Brexit Party MP
Despite political pollsters and bookmakers predicting Nigel Farage's Brexit Party a shoe-in to win its first MP in Peterborough, a surge of Labour door-knocking and activism helped the party retain the seat. The election of a new MP came about after local people effectively sacked their former Member of Parliament, ...
Labour make up ground on Brexit Party in Peterborough
The Labour Party is making up ground in the Peterborough by-election with odds on Lisa Forbes to win plummeting from 7/1 to 5/1 today. Fifteen candidates are facing voters at the ballot box on Thursday in a contest that will have wide political ramifications. The election of a new MP ...
With Labour now 9 points ahead of Tories, senior Tory calls for election pact with Brexit Party
As the latest poll shows Labour widening the gap in voting intention to 9 Points Ahead of Conservatives, a senior Conservative has suggested that his party make an electoral pact with the Brexit Party. In the European elections this month Nigel Farage’s new party despite being only a few weeks ...
As Brexit Party storms into poll lead, Labour warned to back remain or risk Farage landslide
A second opinion poll this week shows Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is set to command the most MEP’s in May’s European Parliament election. Just one week after the official launch of the Brexit Party in Coventry unveiled four of its candidates including Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sister Annunziata and Brexit profiting fund ...
Labour will become the referendum party – here’s why
Rumours that Labour will become the referendum party have gained a lot of mainstream traction of late, and there’s a good reason why. Despite Jeremy Corbyn and other senior colleagues being openly sceptical of the merits of a so-called "confirmatory" referendum, the opportunity to squash the Tories in both European ...
Tory MPs leave party to join Labour breakaway group
Three MPs - Sarah Wollaston, Heidi Allen and Anna Soubry - leave the Tory party to join Labour breakaway group. The Independent Group was formed yesterday by seven former Labour MPs, including Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger and Chris Leslie. Late yesterday evening Joan Ryan became the eighth MP to quit Labour and join ...
After seven MPs left the party how can Labour move forward?
So, MPs have left the Labour Party to form an Independent Group. Is this the beginning of the end? Can Labour escape from this and its Brexit dilemmas, or is there no way out? 63% of Labour’s vote in 2017 came from remain supporters, and 37% from leave supporters, ...
MPs set to leave Labour and launch new party
In the biggest split in the Labour party since the 1980s, when the breakaway SDP was formed, it is expected that a number if MPs are set to leave Labour today, There have been rumours swirling for sometime, and momentum for the plan appeared to be increasing last week. It ...
Brexit dithering has cost Labour 150k members and £6 million, party insiders claim
Brexit dithering has cost Labour some 150,000 members and £6 million, according to party insiders. The number of paid-up activists now stands at around 385,000 - down from a peak of more 500,000 in 2017 - amid fury at Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit stance, the Sunday Times has claimed. Sinking numbers has hit ...
Labour MPs blame own party for robbing Parliament of medicinal cannabis vote
Today veteran MP Paul Flynn’s Private Member’s Bill that would have paved the way for Alfie Dingley, 6, who has a sever form of epilepsy and others like him to legally receive the medicinal cannabis they urgently need was filibustered by Tory and Labour MP’s. Speaking outside parliament Newport West ...
Labour MP John Woodcock’s X-rated tweet against own party
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It should have been David Cameron's worst PMQs since he became PM, but it wasn't to be. A spreadsheet of Labour MPs and their level of hostility to their own Leader emerged, and was used by Cameron throughout the session. Labour MP John Woodcock was ...
Swinson open to pro-remain election pacts, but rules out deal with Labour
The Liberal Democrat leader ruled out the prospect of her party standing down in any seats in a general election for Labour candidates.
Ex-Labour MP Chuka Umunna set to attack Jeremy Corbyn from Lib Dem stage
The defector is set to launch a tirade against the state of his former party under Mr Corbyn’s leadership.
Sajid Javid refuses to rule out Brexit Party pact – or breaking law by not delaying Brexit for a deal
Leading QCs say Boris Johnson could go to jail if he defies the law.
John Mann quits Labour to become Tory adviser
The veteran politician will take up a full-time role as the government’s ‘anti-semitism tsar’.
Cross-party MPs ‘preparing legal action’ to force Boris Johnson to delay Brexit
The Prime Minister has written to Tory members confirming he will not ask for a Brexit extension despite a new law set to demand it of him.
How Boris Johnson destroyed the Tory Party to conceal his lack of a deal
“The government’s intention, or willingness, to lead the country into a no-deal exit is a threat to our country."
Portuguese socialist party polls at 44% after bringing the economy back from the dead
The party's popularity comes off the back of a miraculous economic recovery that has been credited to the left-wing economic policies of the current ruling coalition.
Tory split widens amid reports MPs stopping no-deal Brexit barred from standing at next election for party
Philip Hammond called the Conservative purge 'staggeringly hypocritical' as 8 current cabinet ministers had defied the Tory whip this year.