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Labour increased its share of the vote in council by-elections last night. The Tories retained all four seats up for grabs, which had been expected, as the votes were held in the well-heeled community of Wyre in Lancashire as well as in…
Labour has appointed Rape Crisis and set up a helpline to provide independent support for anyone affected by sexual harassment in the party. Jeremy Corbyn and Labour officials agreed the move following a series of allegations of misconduct…
Chris Williamson, the staunch Corbynista MP, resigned from Labour's frontbench today. The Derby North MP stepped down as shadow fire minister saying he wanted to campaign on a "broader range of issues." He quit just days after calling for a…
A Unison activist and councillor has beaten the Momentum candidate for a top Labour target in the south west of England. Mhairi Threlfall, an expert on entrepreneurship, won the contest for Filton and Bradley Stoke, known locally as FABS…
Labour activists in a middle England target seat have picked a former soldier to take on Tory minister Robert Buckland. Sarah Church will contest South Swindon, where she also stood in last year's general election. Today Jeremy Corbyn…
Almost 500,000 million British jobs could be lost if Theresa May walks away from the EU without a deal, Sadiq Khan said today. The London mayor published new research saying that a "no deal hard Brexit" could mean 87,000 fewer jobs in the…
John McDonnell today surprised Labour activists by confirming he would attend the Davos summit of elite financiers, chief executives and politicians. The shadow chancellor, who has waged war on the "establishment" in his two years at the…
Crisis, what crisis? The tabloid headline used to pillory the Labour government of 1979 could well be dusted down and applied to Theresa May's administration today. As May plodded through another pedestrian performance at PMQs, with the…
Jeremy Corbyn takes on Theresa May today in the first prime minister's questions of 2018. It comes after May's latest "relaunch" ended in farce when she failed to deliver the wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle she had planned over Christmas and…
Labour will today force a Commons vote on what it describes as the "worst winter crisis" ever recorded in the NHS. Jon Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, will call on the Tories to raise cash limits in order to reschedule tens of…
Tributes have been paid to the Open Britain press chief who was among six people killed in a seaplane crash near Sydney on New Year's Eve. Will Cousins, head of press at the pro-EU campaign group, was praised as a "great team player" who…
Labour peer Andrew Adonis quit as Theresa May's infrastructure chief this afternoon saying the prime minister's handling of Brexit meant she had become the "voice of UKIP". Lord Adonis resigned as chair of the national infrastructure…
