Tories and Labour

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…