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The reshuffle of Keir Starmer's top team has made further progress today with the announcement that chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is being appointed Labour's new elections chief in the party headquarters. McSweeney, the 44-year-old…
One of Keir Starmer's closest aides, Jenny Chapman, is being moved from her role as director of politics in the Labour leader's office to become shadow Brexit minister in the House of Lords. According to an exclusive report by The Times…
Angela Eagle is set to join Labour's national executive committee after winning the by-election to replace Shabana Mahmood as a parliamentary party representative on the ruling body. The Wallasey MP won the internal contest against Grahame…
Former Labour officials suspended over a controversial internal report on the handling of disciplinary cases during the Jeremy Corbyn era – which was leaked online in April last year – are being readmitted to the party. The 860-page…
David Lammy is right that a "decade of Conservative incompetence, court closures, cuts and reduced sitting days have combined with the pandemic to create a backlog of more than 54,000 cases". Sadly, though, he is wrong to call for jury…
Shabana Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Ladywood, has been elected this morning as chair of the Labour disputes sub-committee that takes charge of internal party complaints on the national ruling body. The backbencher won by 18 votes to 11…
David Lammy has warned of a "damaging" and "dangerous" situation in English prisons after the government has continued with Covid restrictions that leave many prisoners stuck in their cells for 23 hours a day. Reacting to the announcement…
Anneliese Dodds has criticised the government for "always running to keep up" after the Chancellor used his third economic update in a month to unveil more financial support for businesses in the second coronavirus wave. Rishi Sunak told…
David Lammy has set out Labour's plans on criminal justice reform, voicing the party's commitment to renationalising probation, addressing racial and gender inequality and improving diversity. At a Labour 'Connected' fringe event alongside…
As we approach International Women’s Day on March 8th, it is important to recognise that the struggle for equality has come a long way to give us women many rights that we often take for granted. The right to vote, to divorce and even to…
Labour MP Shabana Mahmood has come under fire from Labour supporters and LGBT campaigners over a speech she made about same-sex relationship lessons in primary schools. In response to a petition signed by over 1,700 of her constituents, the…
A former Labour cabinet minister has joined forces with one of the leading lights of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign for the launch of a "patriotic" initiative to give English voters a voice. John Denham, the former communities and…
