Labour grandee Margaret Beckett says factions of Jeremy Corbyn supporters are happy to see party split August 15, 2016 A Labour grandee has said that some elements supporting Jeremy Corbyn would be happy to see the Labour party split after the leadership election. Margaret Beckett has said that a number of people joining the Labour party are joining to support Jeremy Corbyn in a kind of "members club", rather than because they support the [...]
After an enormous victory in local elections, should the Tories fear voter complacency in the General? May 8, 2017 Alex Deane, a Conservative commentator, says Yes. Only Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn can be Prime Minister on 8 June, and it is foolish in any binary contest to dismiss the possibility regarded by pollsters as unlikely – just ask “no way she can lose” Hillary Clinton and the “bound to win” Britain Stronger in [...]
Labour donor entices rebels with millions to defect over Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership July 6, 2016 A Labour donor has said he will give rebels millions of pounds to defect amid concerns that the party can no longer provide effective opposition. Dr Assem Allam, who has donated more than half a million pounds to Labour, has said he fears Labour will never be be able to recover after Corbyn's leadership turned [...]
State aid and post-Brexit trade: What we can learn from the Boeing-Bombardier feud September 20, 2017 The Prime Minister has been in Canada this week. One of the big issues covered was how to keep UK-Canada trade as seamless as possible, given that the Canada-EU trade deal, Ceta (which comes into force this Thursday), will lapse when the UK leaves the EU unless some new agreement is made. It was announced [...]
Look to Milton Keynes for the solution to the housing crisis October 16, 2017 If asked what the greatest achievement of the British government over the last 50 years was, people will give a wide range of answers. Perhaps Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy policy would get your vote, or maybe joining (or now leaving) the EU. I doubt many would give you the following answer however: Milton Keynes. [...]
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock tells Jeremy Corbyn to resign July 3, 2016 Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has urged Jeremy Corbyn to give up his battle to remain as leader of the party in the face of overwhelming opposition from Labour MPs. Kinnock, who lost to John Major in the 1992 general election, also said Corbyn would have to secure the backing of at least 50 MPs [...]
Jeremy Corbyn ramps up calls for railway renationalisation and for government to take over Southern Rail franchise August 3, 2016 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will today ramp up his pledge to renationalise the UK’s railways. At a public rally in Brighton, one of the cities worst hit by the Southern Rail crisis, Corbyn will call on the government to end the franchise and reiterate the Labour Party’s commitment to a nationalised “People’s Railway”. “If there’s [...]
Momentum cancels Jeremy Corbyn support rally because of “overwhelming demand” June 29, 2016 A Jeremy Corbyn support rally to be held tonight by left-wing group Momentum has been cancelled due to "overwhelming demand". The group was set to hold a rally tonight in Congress House, but says the event will now be postponed. It said: "Due to overwhelming demand for tonight’s meeting in Congress House we have unfortunately [...]
Now even Thomas Piketty has quit as an adviser to Jeremy Corbyn June 29, 2016 Thomas Piketty, one the world's most famous left-wing economists and inequality campaigners, has left his position as an adviser to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Piketty, who shot to worldwide fame in 2013 with his highly-cited, less-often-read treatise on inequality, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", was a member of Corbyn's economic advisory council, but has stepped down and attacked [...]
Almost one-in-three former Labour backers say Jeremy Corbyn was the chief reason behind their move away from the party August 23, 2016 Jeremy Corbyn has been the largest single factor behind drooping Labour support, according to a Yougov study of 200 former Labour backers. Of 1,000 Labour supporters previously interviewed by the pollster, Yougov returned to roughly 200 who said they would no longer back the party and get the main reasons behind their rejection of Labour. Respondents were [...]