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Happy polling day! Yes, the big day has finally arrived and people around England are voting in this year's local elections, with 8,000 seats in 230 councils up for grabs. Presumably all loyal LabourList readers will have already got a dawn…
Keir Starmer has been on the attack over housing and home ownership in the last few weeks. On the heels of shadow cabinet ministers' declaration that Labour is "proudly the party of home ownership", Starmer used this week's PMQs to grill…
Labour is hoping for a significant breakthrough in this week's local election results, with senior figures talking up the prospect of taking around 400 seats as a sign of progress ahead of next year's general election. With more than 8,000…
Rachel Reeves has said the government's review into Sue Gray's appointment as Labour leader Keir Starmer's chief of staff is a "political gimmick", set up by ministers to pursue a "vendetta" against the former senior civil servant. Deputy…
On paper, Medway is not the kind of place you would expect Labour to be feeling optimistic about taking in this week's local elections. The unitary authority in Kent is not only governed by the Conservatives, but has also never been in…
Keir Starmer has said Labour will likely "move on" from its pledge to scrap tuition fees but argued that we need a "fairer" system for higher education. The move had been widely expected at some point as Labour had already put the policy…
The former Kensington MP Emma Dent Coad has announced that she has resigned her Labour membership "after much soul-searching", saying party had become "unrecognisable". The former MP made the announcement in a video released on social media…
The vice-chair of the Jewish Labour Movement has said Diane Abbott's political career shouldn't "end like this", after the Labour MP was suspended over comments dubbed "antisemitic" by the party's leadership. Labour peer Baroness Ruth…
In today's PMQs, Keir Starmer attempted to target the dire Conservative economic record but somehow missed. While he got some of his attack lines out- yes, the Prime Minister is wealthy and wildly "out of touch"- the attempt at a broad…
Labour has announced that if the party comes into government, it will make spiking a crime. Spiking is not legal at present; it's a form of assault covered by a variety of laws. The logic is that creating a specific offence is a way to…
The Health Secretary Steve Barclay yesterday confirmed that the government would be taking action against the Royal College of Nursing, in an attempt to halt their planned industrial action on May 2nd. They claim it falls outside of the…
The veteran MP Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour whip following comments made in a letter to the Observer which suggested that Jewish, Traveller and Irish people do not experience racism, only "prejudice". Abbott apologised…
