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Jeremy Corbyn must kill off the perception he is "on the same side" as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove and confront the left-wing "liars of Lexit", according to a new report backed by a series of Labour MPs. Backbenchers Alison McGovern and…
A trade unionist and former parliamentary candidate has won the Labour nomination to try to oust veteran europhile Ken Clarke after half a century in the Commons. Cheryl Pidgeon, ex-midland regional secretary of the TUC, won out over Nadia…
This is John McDonnell's video posted on Twitter from the snowy slopes of the World Economic Forum in Davos. He warned that a "social avalanche" would hit the elites unless they reformed a "rigged" system. I’ve just been to Davos with a…
Dan Jarvis has joined the contest to be chosen as Labour's candidate for the new role of South Yorkshire mayor. The former frontbencher and ex-paratrooper applied before the deadline passed on Friday. Former sports minister Richard Caborn…
A former MP and union official has been selected to fight a key north-west marginal for the fourth time. Julie Hilling will take on Tory backbencher Chris Green in Bolton West as she bids to reclaim the seat she held between 2010 and 2015…
A Momentum-backed activist who came within 350 votes of unseating home secretary Amber Rudd has been chosen again as a Labour candidate. Peter Chowney, who first stood in Hastings and Rye last year, will take on Theresa May's closest ally…
A trade union lawyer will take on a former minister in the Blair government for the right to be Labour's candidate for south Yorkshire mayor. Ben Curran, a Sheffield councillor and solicitor, announced his entry into the race yesterday as…
The global elites of business and politics have no idea of the contempt with which they are viewed, John McDonnell said today in Davos as he vowed the biggest clampdown on tax avoidance in global history. The shadow chancellor, who is…
Momentum represents the mainstream of politics, its chair has said, as he predicted Britain could be "months" away from a Jeremy Corbyn government. Jon Lansman, founding chair of the pro-Corbyn group, said Momentum represented the "new…
The Tory vote slumped as they held on to an Isle of Wight seat in the single council by-election last night. Theresa May's party retained the Central Wight ward as Labour trailed behind the Lib Dems and Greens in fourth place. The result…
Labour peer Jonathan Mendelsohn was tonight sacked from Labour's frontbench over his attendance at the notorious Presidents Club charity ball. Jeremy Corbyn told Mendelsohn to step down from his role as business and trade spokesman after…
Theresa May has presided over the worst winter crisis in NHS history, Labour said tonight as Jeremy Corbyn and Jon Ashworth demanded an emergency Budget to heal the health service. Labour published new figures showing the scale of hospital…
