Politics

Labour faces annual leadership contests until the fractious Parliamentary Party is replaced by new MPs who are prepared to respect the members’ vote warned one Labour Party insider after the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting which decided the arrangements for ...

Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is being urged to reject Angela Eagle’s request to “fix” the ballot by excluding Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership election. Anglea Eagle appeared on the influential Radio 4 Today news programme this morning in a ...

Margaret Hodge revealed the strategy of the Corbyn coup plotters on Radio 4 this morning (Sunday, 10th July): to win by keeping Jeremy Corbyn off the ballot paper for Labour Leader. Her revelation helps explain the tactics of the Coup ...

Labour Party members are rushing to express dismay at Angela Eagle’s announcement that she is trying to push Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn MP onto the back benches and bring back the policies that have lost Labour two General Elections in ...

The last time Labour MPs tried to find a way to squash the views of Labour Party members, they had to eat humble pie. It was at the turn of the century, as the Labour Party selected its candidate to ...

Evidence is slowing coming to light that far from knocking on voters’ doors to get support for “remain”, some Labour Party Right figures have been spending the last weeks planning the coup against Jeremy Corbyn – irrespective of the referendum ...

Boris Johnson began this morning (Monday, 27th June) with a classic blunder. As he came out of his Islington home, to which he had returned after a weekend in his country home, he announced that all was well with the ...

Not for the first time, Margaret Hodge has opened her mouth and put her foot in it. The woman who was entirely perplexed by the rise of the BNP in her own constituency turns out to be equally confused about ...

In a move somewhat eclipsed by other news in the closing days of the referendum campaign, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi woke up and realised she was – again – in the wrong camp. The Conservative peer had declared herself a Brexit ...

As pressure mounts from a handful of parliamentary has-beens to try to persuade Labour to ditch its greatest current asset, Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters have begun a petition to show their confidence in him. It’s gaining more and more signatures every minute – ...