Labour leadership race: Acting leader Harriet Harman admits up to 100,000 members could be purged from vote August 28, 2015 The Labour purge is expected to reach a six-figure total, the party admitted today. Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman said as many as 100,000 people could be blocked from the party's leadership vote. So far the party has removed around 3,000 infiltrators, but the former home secretary said Labour believed that one in five registered [...]
EU migrant crisis: Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper urges government to accept 50,000 refugees September 7, 2015 As David Cameron prepares to outline details of how many refugees the UK will take in parliament later today, labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper has indicated that 50,000 or more refugees should be accepted into the country. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Cooper commended Cameron’s anticipated statement today accepting more refugees: “That would [...]
Umunna offers Corbyn camp an olive branch September 3, 2015 THE LABOUR party must demonstrate unity regardless of the outcome of its Labour leadership contest, shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has said. Alluding to the far-left front-runner Jeremy Corbyn in a speech to the Westminster think tank Policy Network yesterday, Umunna said: “I do not think we can simply dismiss out of hand those who [...]
Labour leadership race: Burnham, Cooper, Kendall and Corbyn are nominated June 16, 2015 Four candidates in the Labour leadership race have attained the necessary support to be placed on the ballot paper to succeed Ed Miliband. Jeremy Corbyn, the left-leaning candidate in the race, gained the support of 36 MPs just two minutes before the deadline – just above the quota needed to be considered for the leadership [...]
UK property market: Why Victorian housing associations are just as relevant today October 15, 2015 The problem for many housing associations with this week's Housing Bill is that a focus on extending home ownership or even on supply alone serves only to deal with some of the problems facing those on low incomes. For those now too old for a full mortgage, constrained by the limits of zero hours contracts [...]
Corbyn picks up another union endorsement July 31, 2015 FAR-LEFT Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn has picked up yet another endorsement from a trade union, cementing his spot as the front-runner in the race to replace Ed Miliband. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said yesterday that the anti-austerity candidate Corbyn was the “antidote” to the “virus within the Labour Party”, adding that its members [...]
As Labour purges leadership election voters, will its next leader struggle for legitimacy? August 25, 2015 Tom Mludzinski is head of political polling at ComRes, says Yes No matter who wins, the next Labour leader will have a difficult job in uniting the party. If, as many commentators are predicting, Jeremy Corbyn is victorious, one of his biggest challenges will be to get the Parliamentary Labour Party behind him. Many have [...]
What got us talking this week – including the Autumn Statement, Syria, Black Friday and Arsenal’s injury crisis November 27, 2015 This week, we discovered we are all late-night, smartphone-using shopping addicts, as these three charts show. So sit back and relax, while we take you through what got us talking this week. George's marvellous medicine All eyes were on Westminster this Wednesday, as George Osborne delivered his Autumn Statement and Comprehensive Spending Review. In case you [...]
Remembrance Sunday: These are the services taking place at Cenotaph and throughout London on 8 November November 5, 2015 Remembrance Sunday will take place on 8 November this year, with the main service taking place at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, central London. The service to commemorate British and Commonwealth servicemen and women from the two World Wars and subsequent conflicts will start at 11am. The Queen will pay tribute alongside Cabinet members, opposition party leaders – [...]
Hillary Clinton’s email dump sheds light on David Miliband’s heartfelt response to losing the Labour leader vote to his brother Ed September 1, 2015 David Miliband has famously kept tight-lipped when it comes to the leadership rivalry between him and his younger brother Ed – but an email between the former foreign secretary and Hillary Clinton has shed light on his real feelings at the time. A newly-released batch of emails from the US presidential hopeful's private server include [...]