Gary Gibbon
Labour leadership angers GMB union with fracking announcement
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn needs votes from the GMB union – but his views on Trident and fracking could be problematic.
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Glitter-bombed Starmer promises a ‘decade of national renewal’
In Liverpool Sir Keir Starmer told the Labour Conference that he was shocked and appalled by ‘the cold blooded murder of men, women and children, including British citizens by the terrorists of Hamas.’
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Corbyn’s critics waiting for the olive branch
Jeremy Corbyn is talking about extending an olive branch to his defeated MPs but his opponents say they haven’t seen it yet.
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Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Corbyn increases his majority
Jeremy Corbyn has increased his majority, a pretty rare feat his team say. His share of the vote has gone up from 59.5 per cent to 61.8 per cent, largely thanks to an increased share of the members’ section of the vote. Owen Smith, the defeated challenger, congratulated Mr Corbyn on “having changed the nature…
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Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Corbyn, unilateralism and Trident
Scottish Labour has voted against Trident. Jeremy Corbyn’s team may think the wider party could follow suit.
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Labour: ‘We are not deficit deniers’
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says Labour will back George Osborne’s plan to cut the national debt as the party gathers for first conference since Jeremy Corbyn became leader.
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Gary Gibbon
Corbyn, conference and the sand-pit
Jeremy Corbyn’s office is bracing itself for his first Party Conference as leader. This afternoon he was due to have his first encounter with an autocue machine.
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Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Corbyn day one: lacking clarity and a clear project
There was disappointment that Jeremy Corbyn hadn’t taken a little more trouble over his victory speech. His allies say that’s because he speaks from the heart and isn’t “on message.” But the speech rambled and it didn’t scream compromise or out-reach to some ears.
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Gary Gibbon
The road to Corbyn
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.
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Ed Miliband and Labour’s new five-point pledge card
Ed Miliband promises a Labour government would stand up to the “powerful” as he set out the party’s election promises at a spring rally.
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Labour’s woes: ‘We’ve got the leader we’ve got’
Labour’s biggest individual donor, businessman John Mills, gave the party £1.65m in company shares last year – but does he think Ed Miliband is the right leader?
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Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband: ‘We will do it together’
The idea behind Ed Miliband’s speech was to make the forthcoming election a battle of the plans, and its central message was solidarity – or “the spirit of together”.
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Miliband puts NHS centre stage in election campaign
Labour leader Ed Miliband outlines plans to increase NHS spending, with fees for tobacco companies, a “mansion tax” for owners of £2m plus homes and a crackdown on tax avoidance.
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Miliband pledges NHS ‘with time to care’
Labour leader Ed Miliband tells conference NHS improvements will be funded by clamping down on tax avoidance, using proceeds from a mansion tax, and raising extra resources from tobacco companies.
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Michael Crick
Problems for the ‘red rose’ party? Out and about in Heywood
Reverberations from the Scottish referendum are still playing out in the traditionally safe Labour seat of Heywood and Middleton, reports Michael Crick.
