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  • Birmingham gets its first black MP as Paulette Hamilton wins Erdington by-election for Labour

    Victory for Labour

    Paulette Hamilton overcame personal tragedy to become the country’s newest MP by winning the Birmingham Erdington by-election for Labour. The Labour candidate’s father died at the start of the campaign and she thanked party leader Sir Keir Starmer for his “endless support” during the emotional by-election contest. The victory saw her increase Labour’s vote share [...]

  • 100 Tory seats at risk: Voters abandon Boris Johnson en masse as Keir Starmer makes Red Wall comeback and leads nationwide

    New PM in 2022?

    A majority of Brits doubt Boris Johnson will be Prime Minister this time next year, as Keir Starmer has won voters’ hearts back in the Red Wall, according to a new poll. The Deltapoll survey of the 57 constituencies the Tories gained in the 2019 General Election, most of which could be considered part of [...]

  • Labour member claims she faced abuse by fellow delegate in toilets at conference venue

    A Labour member claims she was subjected to transphobic abuse in a toilet at the venue for the party’s conference in Brighton. Cries of “shame” were heard in the conference hall in Brighton today after Councillor Patricia Hannah-Wood, of Pendle Labour Party, said she had been abused by a fellow delegate. She delegates: “On Sunday [...]

  • Jealousy drove Labour MP Claudia Webbe to threaten partner’s friend with revenge porn

    September 27, 2021

    Labour MP Claudia Webbe allegedly made a string of phone calls to a women in a campaign of harassment between September and April last year. The MP threatened to send naked pictures of 59-year-old Michelle Merritt to her family because she was jealous of her friendship with her partner, a court heard today. During one, [...]

  • Slap £1.7bn in taxes on private schools to pay for state education, says Keir Starmer

    September 26, 2021

    A Keir Starmer government would slap a £1.7bn tax burden on private schools in order to pay for state education, the Labour Leader has said. The opposition leader told the Sunday Mirror he wanted to see a “rethink” on education and said the pandemic has increased the gap between children of wealthy and poor families. [...]

  • Energy industry questions Labour’s ‘exceedingly ambitious’ zero-carbon plan

    October 24, 2019

    Senior figures in the UK energy industry have cast doubt upon a Labour party-backed report setting out the “most radical feasible pathway” to reach zero-carbon by 2030. The report, commissioned on the back of this year’s Labour party conference, said the move would require £150bn in up-front capital, followed by investment of 2% GDP each [...]

  • Businesses don’t need Labour to adopt a more flexible work week

    October 3, 2019

    Labour’s pledge at its party conference to introduce a four-day working week on five-day’s pay has grabbed headlines and been greeted with concern in some quarters and optimism in others. Questions abound from journalists and employers alike. How could this be achieved? Would it mean shutting offices and factories for a three-day weekend? How much [...]

  • Labour plots further £5bn investment in electric car industry

    September 24, 2019

    Labour has pledged to spend £2bn on the construction of three electric car battery factories in parts of the country which have lost thousands of car industry jobs in the last year. The plan would see a Labour government plough the money into so-called gigafactories in south Wales, Stoke and Swindon, with each site employing [...]

  • Labour hopes to lease 30,000 electric cars to public in climate drive

    September 23, 2019

    Labour has unveiled plans to roll out a fleet of 30,000 electric hire cars onto Britain’s roads in a bid to help tackle climate change. Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey today said Labour would spend £300m to provide its so-called People’s Zipcars if it came to power, which people across the country could rent via [...]

  • Motion to oust Labour deputy leader Tom Watson withdrawn after backlash

    September 21, 2019

    A motion to oust Labour deputy leader Tom Watson from his role has been withdrawn after receiving a huge backlash. Watson this morning criticised the move as a “secretarian attack” prior to it being withdrawn. The deputy leader of the opposition found out late on Friday that founder of Labour grassroots group Momentum, John Lansman, [...]

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