Select committees: Cooper and Benn keep positions as Greenwood and Reeves win
Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn won their elections for influential select committees uncontested, while Rachel Reeves and Lilian…
Rachel Reeves
Corbyn’s taunts expose meagre Queen’s Speech offering from “interim” PM
What an odd day. But what a moment for Labour supporters to enjoy. Just a few months ago…
Election 2017 liveblog: 9pm update – Labour takes Kensington in final count
9 Labour has taken Kensington from the Tories with a majority of 20. Well done Emma Dent Coad on…
Senior Labour figures celebrate France’s “defeat of hatred and racism”
The victory of Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen’s fascist National Front is being celebrated across the world…
Confusion as Labour HQ picks male ex-mayor despite hope of all-women shortlist
Labour officials have named a former local mayor in Kent as its candidate in Slough. Activists hailed the…
Labour MP warns over “random acts of violence” in Syria
A senior Labour shadow minister had made clear his belief that “random” military attacks by Donald Trump could…
Britain must push for no-fly zone and take its fair share of refugees – Labour MPs back LCID plea over Syria crisis
This is the full statement published today by Labour Campaign for International Development, and signed by MPs, as well…
Rachel Reeves: Tory tax changes and benefits freeze mean struggling families forced to fund new handout for the rich
The start of the new financial year today is when the rich get richer and the poor get…
Margaret Beckett becomes longest serving woman MP in history
Margaret Beckett has become the longest serving woman MP of all time. Beckett has in total the longest…
Rachel Reeves on radical policy making, ambition and Alice Bacon’s legacy
We need to tell the stories of women in our party, and their importance to the Labour movement,…
