Labour MP Ruth Lorraine Jones won the Newport West by-election last night, triggered by the death of veteran MP Paul Flynn. Mrs Jones took 9,308 votes, giving her a majority of 1,951 over the Conservatives, with UKIP in third place. In her victory speech, Mrs Jones said: "This by-election has ...
The Labour Party has been lambasted after a party spokesperson confirmed it is official policy to end freedom of movement once the UK leaves the EU. Despite pledging that Labour will develop and implement “fair immigration rules” in its 2017 manifesto the Prime Minister cited ending free movement as an ...
Jacob Rees-Mogg has been roundly lambasted after quoting a far-right anti-Muslim German party in a tweet. The prominent Brexiteer tweeted a video of a speech by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) parliamentary leader Alice Weidel. Her party has been described by Labour MP David Lammy as being "overtly racist", while ...
A Deltapoll survey commissioned by the Mail on Sunday has discovered that public support for the Labour Party stands at 41 per cent, with the Tories are trailing behind on 36 per cent. This wouldn’t give Jeremy Corbyn a majority in the House of Commons, but if a deal was ...
Photographs, watercolour paintings and even his pipe are being sold
As Theresa May heads to the EU to beg for a delay to Brexit, she was warned by her cabinet that delaying Britain’s exit from the EU risked “the end of the Conservative Party”. There were angry scenes in a cabinet meeting this morning as she refused to guarantee how ...
Scottish Labour delegates packed into a fringe event on democratic reform this weekend to hear bold proposals for a ‘new constitutional settlement’ under a Labour government. The meeting, co-sponsored by Unison Labour Link, the Red Paper Collective and Politics for the Many, saw Corbyn’s constitutional adviser launch key proposals (dubbed ...
The Conservative Party is under fire after it was revealed that the party illegally accepted over £1 million in funds from Brits who are actually based in tax havens in the run up to the last election. The Political Parties and Elections Act of 2009 made donations of over £7,500 ...
But admits Labour too slow in tackling anti-Semitism within its ranks