Barack Obama to meet Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, be quizzed by young Londoners and catch some Shakespeare in UK visit April 23, 2016 Barack Obama will meet the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, hold a town hall style meeting with young Britons and visit Shakespeare's Globe in the second full day of his visit to the United Kingdom. The President of the United States caused uproar among Leave campaigners yesterday when he not only issued a passionate plea for Britain to [...]
Labour shadow business secretary Clive Lewis quits frontbench to vote against Article 50 Bill February 8, 2017 Shadow business secretary Clive Lewis MP has announced his resignation from the Labour shadow cabinet, saying he could not back the government's Brexit Bill. He said: “When I became the MP for Norwich South, I promised my constituents I would be ‘Norwich’s voice in Westminster, not Westminster’s voice in Norwich’. I therefore cannot, in all good conscience, [...]
Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson are Britain’s worst dressed men, but which mayoral candidate would Brits take style advice from? May 5, 2016 When all other political attacks fail, it never hurts to poke fun at whatever Jeremy Corbyn is wearing at PMQs. There's a reason why: British men believe Jeremy Corbyn is the worst dressed public figure, according to a study from Harvey Nichols. When it comes to style, men think Labour leader Corbyn is the least inspirational, followed by [...]
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell seems to be transformed – is he the real power behind Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn? April 18, 2016 Firebrand shadow chancellor John McDonnell has undergone a transformation in recent weeks. Whereas Jeremy Corbyn remains every inch the protester (albeit one with a bigger stage to play on) McDonnell has adapted to his new office with a professionalism that eludes his leader. The central complaint among Labour insiders is that Corbyn just isn't very good [...]
EU referendum: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appeals to young people to back EU which he doesn’t love but UK benefits from May 13, 2016 Historically thought of as eurosceptic, Jeremy Corbyn today appealed to younger voters to back Remain in the EU referendum while admitting that he doesn't love the EU, but the UK benefits from it. Speaking in Liverpool, Corbyn said that turnout at the General Election last year was just 47 per cent of young people who [...]
Shadow minister Tulip Siddiq quits Labour’s frontbench over Article 50 plan January 26, 2017 Labour shadow minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned from her party's frontbench over plans to order MPs to back an Article 50 Bill. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said earlier today that he would impose a "three line whip" on the Bill, meaning all of his MPs would be expected to back the legislation, which will grant [...]
Secret list from Jeremy Corbyn’s allies says mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan is “hostile” to Labour leader March 23, 2016 Advisers to Jeremy Corbyn have labelled Labour mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan as "hostile" to the Labour leadership, despite Khan being one of 35 Labour MPs to nominate Corbyn for party leader last summer. The Times reported today that an internal Labour party document divided the party's MPs into five groups: core, core group plus, neutral but not [...]
Jeremy Corbyn could already be harming your investments February 3, 2016 Corbynmania may have reached a crescendo with the election of the Labour leader last year, but the ructions caused by this political phenomenon have not gone away. With Jeremy Corbyn taking an increasingly firm grip of the Party, reshuffling the shadow cabinet and looking to change Labour procedures to enable party members to have more [...]
The oldest serving MP Gerald Kaufman has died at the age of 86 February 27, 2017 The oldest serving MP Sir Gerald Kaufman has died at the age of 86. The Father of the House was a junior minister between 1974 and 1979 and held senior cabinet positions throughout the 1980s. He became the oldest serving member of the House of Commons in 2015 and became an MP in 1970. Labour leader Jeremy [...]
It’s time for the Prime Minister to do a U-turn of her own on students being included in the net migration target March 16, 2017 “You turn if you want to,” Margaret Thatcher famously told her critics, nearly 37 years ago. “The lady is not for turning.” The quotation has gone down in political folklore, an encapsulation of the former Prime Minister’s uncompromising and determined approach to government. Number 10 Downing Street’s current incumbent was compared to the late Baroness Thatcher [...]