Labour leadership campaign: Tories support Corbyn in bid to damage party June 17, 2015 Conservatives have launched a campaign to elect Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour party in order to damage the party's electoral prospects. After Labour's poor results in the General Election, they believe that another left-leaning leader would lock the party out of government for another term. Changes in the Labour party rules now allow [...]
Labour leader debate buzzword bingo: “Ukip”, “immigratation” and “SNP” due to dominate debate June 16, 2015 The SNP, Ukip and immigration are likely to dominate the first Labour leadership debate, according to the betting company Ladbrokes. Read more: Sadiq Khan: "Aspiration" will be overused in Labour leadership race In the race to become the next Labour leader, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Jeremy Corbyn will go head to head in [...]
Labour leadership race: “Ukip”, “immigratation” and “SNP” due to dominate debate June 16, 2015 The SNP, Ukip and immigration are likely to dominate the first Labour leadership debate, according to the betting company Ladbrokes. In the race to become the next Labour leader, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Jeremy Corbyn will go head to head in a debate hosted by the BBC on Wednesday. Ladbrokes is taking [...]
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 [...]
Labour leadership contest: Jeremy Corbyn makes it onto Labour leader ballot in 11th-hour victory: Who are the MPs that endorsed him? June 15, 2015 Jeremy Corbyn has made it onto the ballot for Labour's leadership contest with less than an hour to go before the deadline. It was confirmed that the Islington MP, who is seen as more left-wing than many of his competitors, received the required 35 nominations just moments before the midday closing point. It [...]
Labour leadership race: Who is backing who in the battle to succeed Ed Miliband? June 12, 2015 Labour leadership nominations are nearing the end of their first week, as candidates weigh up their options for their prospective bids for power. While Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall each have enough MPs backing them for a place on the leadership ballot, two more candidates for leader are currently vying for a place. [...]
Labour’s Liz Kendall has “no problem” with a budget surplus June 11, 2015 Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall has said she has "no problem" with aiming for a budget surplus, a policy the government wants to enshrine in law, which commentators say is a political move designed to pressure the Labour party. Read more: UK budget since 1986: There has been deficits for 22 of 30 years "Labour should [...]
Tony Blair warns against move to left and urges Labour to the “radical centre” June 11, 2015 Tony Blair has said Labour will lose the next election without a "fundamental revision" of its strategy. In a move to intervene in the party's leadership race, the former Prime Minister has warned positioning itself to the left would be a bad decision. Read more: This is how the Labour leadership race is stacking up [...]
David Miliband says Labour “has turned the page backwards” in critique of brother’s leadership June 10, 2015 Labour has "turned the page backwards", David Miliband said last night, in his strongest critique yet of his brother's leadership of the party. The former foreign secretary, who lost out on the Labour leadership to his brother Ed Miliband, claimed there was "a very clear reason" for Labour's electoral defeat. In an interview with CNN, [...]
Trade union delegates boo Labour leader candidate Andy Burnham in Dublin June 9, 2015 Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham faced a tough crowd in Dublin yesterday, where he was booed by trade union delegates. Burnham – who is widely seen as the favourite in a field that includes Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall, Mary Creagh and Jeremy Corbyn – was participating in a GMB hustings event with his fellow candidates [...]