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With climate change soaring up the political agenda, thanks to the campaigns of Greta Thunberg and others, there’s been plenty to discuss at the Green Party’s annual conference this weekend.
The infighting at the top of the party has continued following yesterday’s move to unseat Deputy Leader Tom Watson. Today Jeremy Corbyn was forced to defend reported allegations from a senior advisor that his team lacked ‘professionalism, competence and human decency’. Jon Snow spoke to London mayor Sadiq Khan, who today made a direct appeal…
Boris Johnson was due to meet rebel Tory MPs tomorrow, however on Sunday night he cancelled the meeting.
Alexandra Phillips has admitted working for Cambridge Analytica’s parent company on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s successful re-election campaign in Kenya.
EU leaders have begun proposing their new leadership team, nominating Germany’s Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen as the new President of the European Commission.
The Liberal Democrats have just enjoyed their best-ever European results.
Theresa May told MPs this afternoon she wants to find a Brexit deal a majority of them can vote for. She’s promised more talks on the Northern Ireland backstop but rejected pleas to delay Brexit or to consider a second referendum. The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said the cross-party talks were a sham, and accused the Prime Minister of being in…
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…
Are Westminster politicians in danger of not pursuing human rights violations in Bangladesh because of the close connections of one Labour MP to the ruling party in Dhaka? In Bangladesh disappearances continue under an authoritarian police state ruled by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose niece, Tulip Siddiq, is the Labour MP for Hampstead. Tonight we…
Gary Gibbon
This afternoon’s reported spat on the Tory MPs’ WhatsApp group tells you so much about the abysmal state of relations in the Party. There appears to be an attempt to start what looks to some like a bit of a witch-hunt for names on the Grant Shapps list. One MP is accusing Remainers of being behind the Shapps plot. Another MP…
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.
Gary Gibbon
Am in Manchester following Jeremy Corbyn. He’s packed 1,000 supporters into a hall for his campaign launch. The backdrop is his battle bus, driven into the venue on a near empty tank due to health and safety rules.
At least 12 Conservative MPs are facing the possibility of criminal charges tonight – after they were referred to the CPS by police over their election expenses following a year long investigation by this programme. And there are more allegations that this scandal leads to the heart of Downing Street.
Gary Gibbon
Owen Smith’s tilt at the Labour leadership gave Jeremy Corbyn a welcome “shot in the arm”, says his team.
Gary Gibbon
Abuse, personal attacks and mockery – the Leave and Remain wings of the Tory party aren’t pulling any punches, but will David Cameron be able to reunite his party after the referendum?