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 ...
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 ...
New video show Labour leader's hardline stance
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...