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Council by-elections: Tories snatch seat from Labour in north-east heartland
Labour lost a council seat in its north-east heartland last night as the Tories ate into its vote. Jeremy Corbyn’s party saw their support slide by 8.2 per cent in the ward in the Brexit-backing city of Middlesborough. The Tories achieved a swing...
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McDonnell and austerity campaigner in fresh pledge to tackle “toothless” bank laws
John McDonnell has enlisted the support of a leading anti-austerity campaigner for a Labour pledge to halt the tidal wave of bank branch closures. McDonnell and Prem Sikka have joined forces to demand a replacement for the Tories’ “toothless”...
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Exclusive: New coup against Corbyn would plunge Labour below 10 per cent – Abbott
Labour would plunge below 10 per cent in the opinion polls if it pushed out Jeremy Corbyn, one of his leading allies says today. Diane Abbott used a LabourList article to argue that the party would hit a single-digit figure in the polls if the leader...
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- Corbyn aims to ban tax-dodging firms from winning Whitehall contracts
- Centre-left pulls ahead of Momentum and CLPD in race for key conference votes
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May’s Brexit bluster cannot hide the Tory crises in schools, housing and health
When Theresa May invoked article 50 last month, she promised parliament she would “take this opportunity to build a stronger, fairer Britain”. This wasn’t, of course, the first time the May had felt the need to tell us of her apparent focus on...
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Labour forged the Good Friday Agreement – now it has a duty to defend it amid Brexit
It has been some two decades since a Labour government in Westminster, in partnership with Dublin, the SDLP and an extraordinary breadth of nationalist and unionist politicians, clergy, trades union leaders and paramilitaries, brokered the Good Friday...
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Diane Abbott: Corbyn is Labour’s best hope of reaching Downing Street
The knee-jerk reaction of so many British politicians to support the US bombing of Syria should be a sharp reminder that Jeremy Corbyn is indispensable to forging a new politics. He took the brave and correct stance not to endorse yet another...
- They call it “dispersal” but this Tory war on asylum seekers shames May
- Fabians: From Syria to the “Muslim ban”, Europe must decide how to respond to the wild unpredictability of Trump
- Labour’s mass membership is an asset – and not an army for conference in-fighting, a Momentum activist writes
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London stands united in remembrance at Trafalgar Square vigil – Sadiq Khan
Londoners stood as one at last night’s vigil in Trafalgar Square, organised by the mayor Sadiq Khan. Politicians stood with faith leaders and police chiefs to remember those killed in Wednesday’s...
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What happened yesterday was an appalling atrocity – Corbyn to the commons
This is a video of the statement Jeremy Corbyn gave to the house of commons on yesterday’s terrorist attack in Westminster.
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Our thanks go to the brave police and emergency services – Jeremy Corbyn
This is the full statement that Jeremy Corbyn put out after yesterday’s terror attack in Westminster. “Today’s horrific attack in Westminster has shocked the whole country. All our thoughts...
- Keith Palmer was killed while bravely doing his duty – Sadiq Khan
- Tensions run high at parliamentary Labour meeting after Momentum claims
- Sadiq Khan sends video message to May demanding rights for EU citizens in London
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May’s Brexit bluster cannot hide the Tory crises in schools, housing and health
When Theresa May invoked article 50 last month, she promised parliament she would “take this opportunity to build a stronger, fairer Britain”. This wasn’t, of course, the first time the May had felt the need to tell us of her apparent focus on fairness. When she made her first speech as PM, on the steps of Downing Street in July, she pledged to be on the side of ordinary working families – the “just managing” – and to fight the […]
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Council by-elections: Tories snatch seat from Labour in north-east heartland
Labour lost a council seat in its north-east heartland last night as the Tories ate into its vote. Jeremy Corbyn’s party saw their support slide by 8.2 per cent in the ward in the Brexit-backing city of Middlesborough. The Tories achieved a swing of almost equal proportion when they increased their vote by 8.3 per cent to take Coulby Newham. There was only other by-election taking place on Maundy Thursday, in West Dorset, where the Tories hung on to the […]
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Labour forged the Good Friday Agreement – now it has a duty to defend it amid Brexit
It has been some two decades since a Labour government in Westminster, in partnership with Dublin, the SDLP and an extraordinary breadth of nationalist and unionist politicians, clergy, trades union leaders and paramilitaries, brokered the Good Friday Agreement. Yet, this peace, which has so transformed the human economy of Northern Ireland, now faces its greatest crisis as, after two elections and abortive talks to form a power-sharing executive, negotiations at Stormont are now haltingly carried out under the pall of […]
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McDonnell and austerity campaigner in fresh pledge to tackle “toothless” bank laws
John McDonnell has enlisted the support of a leading anti-austerity campaigner for a Labour pledge to halt the tidal wave of bank branch closures. McDonnell and Prem Sikka have joined forces to demand a replacement for the Tories’ “toothless” laws on community banking with a vow to prevent yet more bank shutdowns which hit poor towns and villages and worsen deprivation. It is the latest in a series of policy commitments this week which highlight the flaws of big business […]
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Diane Abbott: Corbyn is Labour’s best hope of reaching Downing Street
The knee-jerk reaction of so many British politicians to support the US bombing of Syria should be a sharp reminder that Jeremy Corbyn is indispensable to forging a new politics. He took the brave and correct stance not to endorse yet another US-led war. Over three decades these military interventions have ended in disaster. None of the supporters of bombing Syria can explain why another war there would be different. It is Jeremy’s commitments to peace, to equality and […]
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