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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, and ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...