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It’s the early hours of Friday 9th June 2017. At Stockport Town Hall, Ann Coffey is momentarily lost for words. The returning officer has just declared that she has been re-elected as Stockport’s Labour MP on a 13.4% swing to Labour with an…
I'm really sorry that I misspoke earlier on Politics Live - here's my statement. pic.twitter.com/7csM95TFLo — Angela Smith MP (@angelasmithmp) February 18, 2019 Angela Smith has issued an apology following an appearance on BBC's Politics…
Angela Smith, who has literally just quit the Labour Party citing racism, here describing BAME people as being a "funny tin..." What were you trying to say, Angela?#PoliticsLive pic.twitter.com/h33MNd0oet — Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics)…
Labour MPs and activists have expressed solidarity with backbencher Luciana Berger, who will soon face a vote of no confidence by her local party. Party members in Liverpool Wavertree have called an extraordinary meeting on 17th February to…
Angela Smith, a backbench Corbynsceptic and former shadow deputy leader of the house, has become the latest Labour MP to have a motion of no confidence in her passed by her local constituency party. Local Labour members in Penistone and…
Labour’s leader in the Lords, Baroness Angela Smith, on peers’ attempts to get the government in a better place on Brexit. With Conservative Party divisions over Brexit once again laid bare, I don’t doubt that some leading Brexit…
Today Labour will begin consulting on a pledge to implement a statutory youth service. Cat Smith, Shadow Minister for Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs, will host a roundtable discussion in Westminster this afternoon with representatives…
The government's approach "seems to be to sit back and wait for others to blink first" when they should be guaranteeing the rights of EU nationals, Angela Smith has said. Smith, Labour's leader in the Lords, has urged the government to do…
This is the full speech delivered by Angela Smith, Labour's leader in the Lords, in the debate on article 50 today. Last June 23, this country held an historic referendum with a straightforward, direct question: “Should the UK remain a…
Jeremy Corbyn's lengthy reshuffle received a boost today when two senior peers ended their boycott of the shadow Cabinet. Angela Smith, Labour's leader in the Lords, and Steve Bassam, chief whip in the upper chamber, said they were…
Labour rival camps were today battling to put their spin on the results of council by-elections which included another shock by-election defeat to the Liberal Democrats. Centrists activists claimed the defeat in North East Derbyshire, in…
"Show, don't tell" was a lesson aspiring novelists were once told, in a nod to the style of Ernest Hemingway. Well, someone needs to give the same lesson to Andrew Fisher. He was the Jeremy Corbyn aide apparently caught on camera saying the…
