Tories and Labour

Nandy Follows Boris’s Lead, Will Move Labour HQ up North Following the Tories’ announcement that CCHQ will be moving up north, Lisa Nandy has pledged to take Labour out of its metropolitan London safety blanket and move their headquarters to Warrington. She also boasts of copying Boris’s war with the BBC……

Labour MPs threatening to quit the party if Rebecca Long-Bailey becomes leader should be forced to hold immediate by-elections, Dawn Butler has said. The deputy leadership hopeful attacked those considering a walkout if Ms Long-Bailey is elected, saying it was unacceptable for them to sit as independents if their constituents voted…

Priti Patel has said that it is ‘right’ that workers should have to learn English before they come to the UK. Speaking ahead of an announcement on the government’s new points-based immigration system, the home secretary stated that immigrants will ‘obviously’ need to speak English and have a ‘sponsored route’…

Labour Surge to 15 Points Behind Tories Opinium has the Tory lead down to a mere 15 points. Will a Starmer-led Labour Party enjoy a honeymoon? Will he narrow the gap? Or will the Labour left just spend the next few years undermining him as he seeks to move the…

The four contenders for the Labour party leadership have been pitching local constituency Labour parties (CLPs) in the hope of receiving sufficient nominations to make through it to the final round of voting.Emily Thornberry has been eliminated from the Labour leadership contest after failing to secure sufficient nominations, leaving just…

Boris Johnson is stealing so many of Labour’s clothes that the opposition will soon not have many left. As he announced the final go-ahead for the HS2 project which began life under Labour in 2009, I scribbled a list of Johnson’s purloined goodies. “Borrowing for investment”, with £100bn of infrastructure projects in next…

Image copyrightGetty Images The new Labour leader faces a huge task. The party's performance at the 2019 General Election was its worst since 1935. Battered over Brexit, losing support in previous strongholds, and led by Jeremy Corbyn whose personal rating…

Former Commons speaker John Bercow may himself be a victim of bullying following the Tories’ decision to refuse to award him a peerage, a shadow minister has said. Labour deputy leadership candidate Dawn Butler said the Conservatives’ decision to depart with tradition and not give Mr Bercow a peerage after his decade in…

Dawn Butler Accuses Tories of Bullying Bercow The Labour Party continue to show they’re the true party of workers’ rights, with their ongoing defence of serial abuser (if the accusations from his officials are to be believed) John Bercow. Following Diane Abbott’s claim earlier this week that Black Rod –…

Last year, the EU adopted the incredibly controversial Copyright Directive (it passed by only five votes, and afterwards 10 MEPs said they'd got confused and pushed the wrong buttons!): now, EU member states have to create rules that require online platforms …