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The results of the 2020 leadership elections confirm that Labour is a soft-left party. In recent years, this has been widely overlooked and the party has been depicted in binary terms – as one split between mutually hostile Corbynite and…
Keir Starmer held a video meeting with representatives of the UK Jewish community this morning, in which he apologised and vowed to start working on the introduction of an independent complaints system. In the conference call, Starmer and…
Almost all of the Corbynites have been swept out of the shadow cabinet by new Labour leader Keir Starmer, but the newbies are not media favourites from the right of the party either. Lots of fresh faces have been brought in, mostly from…
It is becoming increasingly difficult to write this morning email, as the news is ever more devastating and surreal. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital last night with persistent coronavirus symptoms, and there are…
Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner appeared on the Sunday shows this morning and shared their thoughts on the government's handling of coronavirus. Their interviews offered an early indication that the newly elected Labour leader and deputy…
When UNISON gave its backing to Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner back in early January, nobody could have foreseen how our country, society and public services would change in just three short months. Public service workers are working…
Keir Starmer has sent a letter to all members of the Parliamentary Labour Party that calls on them to "pull together" following his election as the party's new leader. In the letter sent just hours after he was elected with 56.2% of the…
Below is the full text of the email sent from Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner to party members this afternoon. Dear member, We want to begin by thanking you for putting your trust in us to lead the Labour Party. Today we take the next step…
Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner have emerged as the winners of Labour's leadership elections today. Here's how Labour figures, party-affiliated trade unions and campaign groups reacted... Richard Leonard The Scottish Labour leader said…
Labour deputy leadership candidate Angela Rayner has revealed that she is self-isolating after starting to display coronavirus symptoms. The MP for Ashton-Under-Lyne tweeted this morning to say: "I will be a bit quieter than usual but will…
My trade union ASLEF believes that Rebecca Long-Bailey and Angela Rayner have the vision and the determination to deliver for all the people of this country, and understand what Labour has to do to win back the hearts, minds and votes of…
For a long time, I did not talk about my background. And it was in no small part thanks to the support and encouragement of the labour movement that I came to talk of it – not as a sign of weakness but of strength. Over the past few years…
