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The veteran MP and former London mayor, Ken Livingston has announced he’s resigned from the Labour party. His party membership has been suspended for the last two years after he claimed that Hitler supported Zionism. That prompted claims of anti-semitism that Mr Livingstone denies.
Gary Gibbon
As recently as this Easter, the Labour leader’s team was signalling internally that it didn’t want to expel Ken Livingstone from the Labour Party. But the heat of the anti-Semitism row in the party and its impact on the local elections seems to have changed that calculation. Ken Livingstone’s continuing suspension was seen by some…
The row over anti-semitism within the Labour Party shows no sign of calming down with Jeremy Corbyn making another intervention this afternoon to try and show that his party has “a zero tolerance” approach to the issue. It comes after the leader sacked the chair of the party’s disputes panel over her support for a…
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who supports calls for a second referendum on the Brexit deal, said he doesn’t think the Labour Party would vote for the kind of Brexit deal the Tory government will end up with. We ask what he was going to do about those standing in his way: Tory back benchers, public opinion and…
Jeremy Corbyn has finally issued a detailed apology for the anti-Semitism he now admits has surfaced in the Labour party during his time as leader. Just 24 hours after infuriating some of his MPs with his description of “pockets” of anti-Semitism in the party, he’s admitted the problem has too often been dismissed “as simply…
The Labour party has warned today that “crunch time is coming” on Brexit. It’s shifted its own position – with the Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer indicating that Jeremy Corbyn will tomorrow endorse a policy of remaining in “a” customs union with the EU. So could Theresa May’s position be in danger – if anti-Brexit…
Gary Gibbon
At times Mr Corbyn couldn’t get more than a couple of sentences out without a burst of applause.
Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters on the left have strengthened their position within the Labour Party with new rules, agreed this afternoon, by the party’s ruling National Executive Committee. In future, candidates for leader and deputy leader will only need to get nominations from 10% of MPs and Euro-MPs, rather than 15%, as now.
Labour MP Heidi Alexander and the leader of the Liberal Democrats Vince Cable debate Labour’s change in Brexit policy.
Gary Gibbon
On the day the PM met her Australian counterpart, she also pre-released a section of a speech due tomorrow in which she seeks consensus with the Labour Party.
A row has broken out in the Labour Party after an MP was told to publicly back Jeremy Corbyn by his supporters who have won control of her local party. Many MPs who took part in last summer’s attempt to oust Mr Corbyn now fear that hard left activists could try to take over the…
Following a very public row with fellow Labour MP John Mann over his comments about anti-semitism and Nazi history, former London mayor Ken Livingstone is suspended from the Labour party.
MSPs Kezia Dugdale becomes the new leader of the Scottish Labour Party, beating Holyrood veteran Ken Macintosh.
Tony Blair trashes claims he said Ed Miliband will lose the general election, while Johann Lamont, leader of the Scottish Labour party, steps down after attacking colleagues in Westminster.
Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband’s reforms of the Labour Party, promised in the heated aftermath of the Falkirk scandal, are due to be rubber-stamped – but will they effectively curb the power of the unions?