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Diane Abbot has become the latest senior Labour figure to express concerns about the party’s policy on Brexit. The shadow home secretary – one of Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies – said she was “beginning to worry” whether the party had got its strategy right. Her intervention will add to the ...

Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman has denied the Labour leader is in hock to unions over Brexit. Claims by Labour MP Dame Margaret Beckett that unions and Mr Corbyn’s aides are preventing the party shifting to support Remain were dismissed as “laughable” by his spokesman. Veteran Labour MP Dame Margaret told the ...

John Prescott, a former deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has been taken to hospital after suffering a stroke, his family said on Monday. Prescott, 81, was taken to hospital on Friday. He served as deputy prime minister from 1997 to 2007. The 81-year-old was taken to hospital ...

“Is Labour’s Brexit dilemma being misunderstood?”, Professor John Curtice wrote ahead of the crucial 2017 by-elections in Copeland and Stoke. The feeling at the time was that areas such as Stoke epitomised what the typical Labour voter wanted. Some 69 per cent of the party’s stronghold seat voted to Leave ...

The majority of Conservative members would countenance the destruction of their own party if it meant Brexit was delivered. A new poll has revealed that exiting the European Union has become a priority for members, subverting traditional loyalties and reshaping political priorities. The majority (54 per cent) said they would ...

Labour and its cross-party alliance has lost its bid to block a no-deal Brexit by barring the next PM from suspending parliament. The numbrs of yes votes was 298 and the number of no votes was 309, a majority of 11. The motion had the backing of former Conservative minister ...

The Labour Party has tabled a motion that would prevent a future Tory Prime Minister from forcing through a 'no deal' Brexit on 31 October. Up for debate in parliament tomorrow the cross-party motion would hand control of the parliamentary agenda to MPs on Tuesday 25th June. If it passes ...

Dominic Grieve called Boris Johnson a “shallow populist” who would bring doom to the Conservative Party in a scathing interview published today. The Tory MP for Beaconsfield told The New European that Johnson would be “manifestly unsuitable for high office” if he won the leadership race – which he is ...

As voters head to the polls in the Peterborough by-election, Nigel Farage's Brexit Party may well gain its first seat in Westminster today. But the new party campaigning hard for its first MP candidate Mike Greene has lost yet another senior figure to a fresh race hate scandal. A campaign ...