Election Donations Revealed
Election Donations Revealed Key eyebrow raisers from the figures released by the Electoral Commission this morning: Tories out-raised Labour by £27 million The Lib Dems out-raised Labour by £3 million Brexit Party’s £7 million not too shabby £113,119,000 donated to political parties in 2019 – the largest ever figure… UPDATE: With…
An Identity Crisis Hits British Politics
The British Labour Party recently celebrated its 120th birthday. Lately, that’s all it has had to celebrate. December’s general election shrunk the party’s number of MPs to 202, its lowest level since 1935. And with four more years of Tory rule to come, the candidates fighting to replace the disastrous…
bubmagFebruary 26, 2020
Keir Starmer will win the Labour leadership, but faces a big problem with the left
Barring accidents, Keir Starmer will become leader of the Labour Party on Saturday 4 April. It will be a “moment”, as they say: the end of the Corbyn experiment. The change will be taken as a sign that the party is perhaps ready to move on, shift its priorities and compromise…
bubmagFebruary 26, 2020
Rishi Sunak’s best chance of reducing inequality is to up taxes for the rich – we all know how likely that is
When he delivers his Budget just 27 days after becoming chancellor, Rishi Sunak will be aware that first Budgets often tell us a lot about those who deliver them. Geoffrey Howe cut taxes in 1979, while George Osborne raised them in 2010. Sunak’s instincts on 11 March will be to…
bubmagFebruary 26, 2020
Labour ‘Are No Longer Relevant’ – Former London Mayoral Candidate
Opinion18:11 GMT 24.02.2020(updated 18:13 GMT 24.02.2020) Get short URLVoting in the Labour leadership contest has officially got underway. But does the party really have a chance of returning to Number Ten Downing Street any time soon?The former London Mayoral candidate Winston McKenzie shares his views on the matter. Sputnik: Does…
bubmagFebruary 24, 2020
Nandy Follows Boris’s Lead, Will Move Labour HQ up North
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……
bubmagFebruary 21, 2020
Labour MPs threatening to quit party if Long-Bailey becomes leader ‘must trigger immediate by-elections’
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…
bubmagFebruary 19, 2020
Priti Patel says it’s ‘right’ workers speak English before entering UK ahead of immigration announcement
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’…
bubmagFebruary 19, 2020