Nicola Sturgeon: Second Scottish independence referendum “triggers” will be in 2016 SNP manifesto September 13, 2015 Nicola Sturgeon has said there could be a second referendum on Scottish independence, a year after the country voted against breaking away. The First Minister and SNP leader has said the party's manifesto for next year's Scottish Parliament election will include possible timescales and triggers for a second vote. Sturgeon has previously said the UK's [...]
Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn victory triggers shadow cabinet resignations from senior frontbench MPs Rachel Reeves and Jamie Reed September 12, 2015 A number of senior Labour MPs have immediately resigned from the frontbench following Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader of the party. Read more: Jeremy Corbyn elected as Labour leader with massive majority Shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said she won't return to the front bench following maternity leave while shadow health minister Jamie [...]
Conservative defence secretary Michael Fallon: New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn poses “serious risk to national security” September 12, 2015 The Conservative Party has issued a strong response to Jeremy Corbyn's victory as Labour leader, describing it as a "very serious moment for our country". Read more: Corbyn victory triggers Labour frontbench resignations Defence secretary Michael Fallon said Labour was now a "serious risk to our nation's security, our economy's security and your family's security." [...]
Labour leadership election result: Jeremy Corbyn wins vote in first round to beat Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall September 12, 2015 Labour has elected left winger Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of the party. Read more: When did it start to look like Jeremy Corbyn might win? Despite initially securing just the bare minimum 35 nominations from fellow MPs to stand, Corbyn has remarkably surged from rank outsider at 66/1 to an overwhelming victory in the [...]
MPs’ expenses scandal list: IPSA names, shames then writes off debt of 25 MPs who failed to pay back, mistakenly names Conservative MP Edward Timpson September 12, 2015 Update 12/09/2015: The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) has apologised after mistakenly including Conservative MP Edward Timpson in a list of 26 current and former MPs who had debts written off after they failed to pay back of up to £500. Read more: MPs handed 10 per cent pay rise to £74,000 despite David Cameron’s objections [...]
Labour leadership election results: What time will the winner be announced and where can I watch it? September 11, 2015 The end is near: Labour will finally name the successor to Ed Miliband as party leader on Saturday morning after 88 days of campaigning. Read more: Key business policies from the Labour leadership candidates It has been one of the most intensely scrutinised party leadership races in memory with left winger Jeremy Corbyn rising from [...]
EU referendum: No, Brexit would not “drive” European Premier League footballers out of the UK September 11, 2015 Today it was claimed that leaving the EU ‘could drive out European Premier League Footballers’. We believe this is a scare story, based on a misrepresentation of the rules and highly dubious assumptions that ignores the fact that, outside an unreformed EU, the UK would be free to set our own policy on migration, visas, [...]
MPs reject the “right to die” as assisted dying bill is voted down in House of Commons September 11, 2015 MPs rejected plans for a “right to die” in England and Wales during a vote in the House of Commons today. The assisted dying bill was rejected by 330 votes to 118, putting those opposed in a majority of 212. If passed, the bill would have given some terminally ill people the right to get [...]
Sadiq Khan beats favourite Tessa Jowell to become Labour’s 2016 London mayoral nomination indicating potential landslide victory for Jeremy Corbyn in Labour’s leadership election September 11, 2015 Tooting MP Sadiq Khan has won the Labour mayoral candidate race, beating other contenders including favourite Tessa Jowell. Khan, who served in the shadow cabinet under Ed Miliband, beat Jowell in the fifth round with 58.9 per cent of votes against Jowell's 41.1 per cent. A total of 87,954 people voted. David Lammy and Dianne [...]
Tessa Jowell to become next Mayor of London, according to analysis of polls September 11, 2015 Dame Tessa Jowell is the only Labour candidate that can overcome Conservative Zac Goldsmith, an analysis of polls showed today. A number of YouGov surveys on the mayoral contest has put Labour four points ahead of the Conservatives overall, on 42 per cent against 38 per cent. And, in total, 17 per cent of respondents believed [...]