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Gary Gibbon
Long marchers from the 2005 Cameron leadership bid will hope it’s a return to his original programme of work, but he now faces divisive and headline-hogging battles.
Caribbean campaigners want Britain and other European countries to pay for the historic crimes of the transatlantic slave trade.
Gary Gibbon
It was a confident and relaxed performance, better than many expected. But probably a bit tougher than some might have expected.
Gary Gibbon
Out-numbered 10 to one in the Commons, Jeremy Corbyn wants to marshal the grassroots forces that backed him in such huge numbers to entrench changes in policy.
As the Labour leadership election dust begins to settle and the future of New Old Labour is set, Islington North constituents discuss Jeremy Corbyn’s work as their MP for 32 years.
Alexis Tsipras’ final election rally had the usual soundtrack and familiar props but a different cast. After more than a fifth of his MPs split to form a new left party, the inner core of party activists behind the stage were nervous. Would anybody more than the party faithful come?
Gary Gibbon
Three days after Jeremy Corbyn told Labour MPs he wouldn’t give David Cameron a blank cheque on the Europe referendum he appears to have signed one.
Labour’s new shadow cabinet has been announced. Who is on the frontbench alongside Jeremy Corbyn and who is advising him behind the scenes?
Jon Snow
A sense of political intoxication: the enthusiasm, the detail, the debate, and the understanding of the issues was unlike anything I had experienced.
Gary Gibbon
Will he last? Senior Blairites (they still exist) say they think he’ll have at least two conferences as leader. But then what?
It’s the size that matters. What political scientists knew, but the media didn’t bother knowing, is that the Labour Party’s membership changed under Ed Miliband.
Gary Gibbon
The Left breaking out of the tomb, over-turning what it sees as a political elite entwined with big business… the vest-wearers overthrowing the vested interests.
Former shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan is selected as Labour’s candidate for the London mayoral elections in 2016, the day before the party unveils its new leader.
Gary Gibbon
On the eve of the Labour leadership result and the potential victory of Jeremy Corbyn, Gary Gibbon looks at the staging posts that have brought the party to this pivotal moment.
Two British citizens have been killed in an RAF drone strike in Syria, an act David Cameron described as self-defence.