Jeremy Corbyn dismisses rumours he is ready to stand down as ‘wishful thinking’ September 22, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn has said he will lead the Labour party into the next general election following speculation that he wanted to stand down. The Labour leader dismissed rumours he wanted to stand down as “wishful thinking by some people”. Read more: Motion to oust deputy leader Tom Watson withdrawn after backlash He said he was [...]
Winging it: Conservatives criticised over meme depicting Jeremy Corbyn as a chicken September 6, 2019 The Conservative Party has published a meme depicting Jeremy Corbyn in a chicken costume and delivered chicken to journalists offices in an escalation in its campaign to brand the Labour leader a “chicken” for refusing to back the government’s calls for an early election. The chicken, which was hand delivered to various newspapers’ Parliamentary offices [...]
General Election 2019: Jeremy Corbyn questions move to kill Isis leader rather than arrest him November 13, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn has said it “would have been the right thing” to arrest Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rather than kill him. The Labour leader, who is currently campaigning in Scotland, told reporters that al-Baghdadi “being removed from the scene is a very good thing”. But he questioned whether it was necessary to kill the [...]
Jeremy Corbyn is the least popular opposition leader since 1977, study reveals September 20, 2019 Market research company Ipsos Mori has revealed that Jeremy Corbyn has the lowest satisfaction rating of any opposition leader since 1977. Using a new political monitor poll, the firm has established that the public are less satisfied with Corbyn than any of the other nine opposition leader since the survey began more than 40 years [...]
General election 2019: Jeremy Corbyn pledges to go after ‘greedy bankers’ as Labour launches campaign October 31, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to go after “the greedy bankers” and “bad bosses” as he kicks off his election campaign in South London this morning. The Labour leader spoke before a packed hall of supporters at the Battersea Arts Centre, near Clapham. Read more: Labour’s renationalisation plans would cost £200bnRead more: EXCLUSIVE: Tories tap up [...]
General Election 2019: Watch Boris Johnson urge voters to back Jeremy Corbyn in deep fake video November 12, 2019 Videos of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn apparently endorsing each other have been circulated online, in a bid to highlight the growing risk of misinformation. Voters are being warned not to trust what they read online, as increasingly sophisticated technology allows producers to create convincing deep fake videos. The videos, which were published online today, [...]
Labour conference: Reeves pledges to spend £252bn on green investment by 2030 September 27, 2021 Labour will spend £252bn on a package of green investment if it wins government at the next election, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced. Reeves today said she would spend £28bn a year on green infrastructure “to unlock that potential, create secure jobs and protect our planet for future generations”, while also declaring that the [...]
The best of 2022: The Lost King director Stephen Frears on the Tory meltdown December 20, 2022 We caught up with director Stephen Frears as the Tories were in the midst of the Liz Truss meltdown, and while he was engrossed in the collapse of the government, he didn’t really want to speak with us. Read on for one of our more uncomfortable interviews. ••• “You think you’ve reached the bottom and [...]
Donald Trump slams Jeremy Corbyn and says Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal a block to US trade October 31, 2019 US President Donald Trump has waded into the UK General Election debate, saying Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would be “so bad” for Britain. Yet Trump also warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson that “certain aspects of” his Brexit deal mean the US “can’t make a trade deal with the UK,” despite the Trump administration wanting to. [...]
Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn sides with Emmanuel Macron on Irish border backstop August 23, 2019 Jeremy Corbyn has said he agrees with French President Emmanuel Macron’s stance on Brexit in that the Irish border backstop is “indispensable”. Macron met with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday and told the UK leader that the EU “will not find a new withdrawal agreement within 30 days that will be very different from [...]