Gary Gibbon
Corbyn hero worshipped by delegates as he sets out policies of the newly radical Labour party
At times Mr Corbyn couldn’t get more than a couple of sentences out without a burst of applause.
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Is ‘left wing purge’ key to a Starmer election victory?
Who is being wooed this election and who is being ditched? Young people? Diane Abbott? Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks Labour’s Meg Hillier, Tory peer Jo Johnson and Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper.
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Gary Gibbon
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Abbott: ‘We’re having a debate about how to keep the British people safe’
Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott defends Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to link to Britain’s involvement in wars with the terror threat.
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Diane Abbott interview
Interview with Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet debates Syria air strikes
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faces a showdown with his most senior colleagues over whether to back the government’s stance on air strikes against Islamic State in Syria.
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Gary Gibbon
Labour one member, one vote sealed at NEC today
Last night saw a final change to Labour’s one member, one vote plans, with the threshold for MPs’ nominations required before a candidate can go forward raised from 12.5 per cent.
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Trade union link ‘gives Labour its meaning’
Labour MP Diane Abbott says that Labour without the trade union link is just a “bunch of Oxbridge PPE graduates”, and says it has led to more black people and women in the party.
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Tenancy debate: can ‘rent controls’ work?
With spiraling rents and mortgages hard to come by, Politician Diane Abbott advocates rent control in London, private landlord Richard Blanco disagrees.
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Diane Abbott: ‘Ed Miliband was right to sack me’
After she is sacked from the shadow cabinet by the Labour leader Ed Miliband, Diane Abbott says that he was right to sack her as he is the leader, though she insists she has never expressed dissent.
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FactCheck: Are young, black jobless worse off than white youths?
“Some people will be antagonised by any discussion of the fact that spiralling unemployment is hitting black people the hardest”, Diane Abbott wrote in today’s Guardian. And rightly so. But some people will be further antagonised by the possibility that Britain’s first black female MP may have got her facts wrong. Has she? FactCheck investigates.
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Tobacco display ban a ‘victory’ for health groups
As Ministers propose a ban on displaying tobacco in shops and the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes, Matthew Cain says the moves will tackle the ‘last bastion’ of branding.
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Gary Gibbon
Stepping into the Shadows
Our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon, reports on the prospects for Labour’s NEXT election – for members of Ed Miliband’s Shadow Cabinet.
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Ed Miliband: time for Labour’s new generation
Labour’s new leader, Ed Miliband, pledges to lead a “new generation” which will “relish” the chance to take on David Cameron. Political editor Gary Gibbon says the speech did not sink – or fly.
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Labour leadership: how a contest works
Unions, the PLP or the electoral college? Channel 4 News looks at how the process of electing a Labour leader works and the candidates likely to benefit from the system.
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Tone of Labour leadership debate set by Tony
The candidates for the Labour leadership outlined their vision for the party during last night’s Channel 4 News hustings, but Peter McHugh notes that the debate’s biggest player was not in the studio.
