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Lord Blunkett has joined forces with a former trade union general secretary to launch a funding platform to "re-energise" the centre ground of Labour politics. The ex-Home Secretary and Brenda Dean, who used to run print union SOGAT, have…
A Labour MP who resigned from her frontbench role last month has been given her old job back after an apparent plea to Jeremy Corbyn to return. Sarah Champion has resumed her post as shadow minister for prevention of abuse just four weeks…
Labour's most senior official has admitted there is "simply too much" abuse in the Labour Party and revealed plans to suspend yobbish members and ban them from voting in the leadership election. Iain McNicol, Labour's general secretary…
John McDonnell today claimed a small group of people are willing to "destroy" Labour simply to remove Jeremy Corbyn and made a dramatic appeal direct to MPs and members to bring an end to the in-fighting. The shadow Chancellor sounded…
A former shadow Cabinet minister has accused aides to Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell of violating her security by making an "unauthorised" entry into her office. Seema Malhotra has demanded Commons officials launch an investigation after…
Jeremy Corbyn will today confront claims of abuse in the Labour Party as he uses a series of events around Britain to appeal to left-wing voters to help him retain the leadership and deliver a "social movement". Corbyn, who has faced claims…
Owen Smith will today pledge to hand two of the top four jobs in shadow Cabinet and then Government to women as he launches a campaign to tackle gender inequality. The leadership candidate says half of the so-called great offices of state…
Trade unionists and Labour MPs have condemned Sports Direct after a report by a Commons committee found the retailer's working practices were close to those of a "Victorian workhouse". The damning inquiry found the firm, owned by…
Jeremy Corbyn has rebuffed an offer from rival candidate Owen Smith to become party president if he is unseated as Labour leader. Corbyn criticised the proposal to act as a left-wing figurehead as "a job that doesn't exist" and likened it…
Owen Smith said Labour is "letting the public down" under Jeremy Corbyn as he vows today to fight a clean campaign for the Labour leadership. The challenger said the party was "failing in our duty" to act as an effective Opposition as he…
A shadow Cabinet minister and senior Corbynite MP has said Labour's "wounds" will need to be mended in the aftermath of the leadership election. Kate Osamor admitted the in-fighting in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) was…
Jeremy Corbyn today launches his campaign for re-election with a pledge to tackle the "five ills of 21st century Britain". The sitting leader will seek to tap into the Beveridge report of 1942 and set out how a Labour government would deal…
