taking over from longstanding leader Nicola Sturgeon, who announced her surprise resignation in February 2023. Sturgeon was being investigated by police as part of a probe into party finances, and her husband Peter Murrell wascharged with embezzlementearlier this year....
Labour to Set out Leadership Election TimetableLABOUR party chiefs are set to agree the timetable next week for the leadership election to select Tony Blair's successor.Nicholas CecilPippa Crerar
The press commented that Gaza “was the hottest issue in this election”. Indeed, these elections mark the time when a movement, with origins generally in the Labour Party and trade unions, has become stron...
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Colm Murphy Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation’, the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–1997 Cambridge University Press, 2023To speak of the “modernizers” in the context of British Labour Party in the years culminating in the landslide election victory of 1997 has become synonymous ...
More interestingly, no previous leadership election – in any of the major parties while in office – had been governed by a one-member–one-vote electoral system. As such, a broad non-parliamentary constituency had a direct say in choosing the individual who would effectively become Tánaiste ...
Are You Going to Stand for the Labour Leadership? and Does Prison Work? ; You Ask the Questions ... ++ John Reid, Home Secretary ; You Ask the Questions ... ++ John Reid, Home SecretaryStop beating around the bush: are you going to stand for the Labour leadership? T Independent 被...
Ms Abbott had the Labour whip suspended in April 2023 pending an investigation after she suggested Jewish, Irish and Traveller people experience prejudice but not racism. The whip was restored on Tuesday but Ms Abbott said she was “dismayed” by reports that she had been ba...
He has a knack for catchphrases, some of them tinged with black humour. At a presentation setting out Labour’s target seats in the 2023 local elections he told shadow cabinet advisers: “Every time you or your boss visits somewhere not on this list, a Labour councillor dies.” ...
Last week Starmer struck an ambiguous note as he described the £28bn investment figure as an “ambition” rather than a concrete pledge. Indeed, the Labour leadership has already reduced the scope and scale of the plan on four separate occasions during 2023. ...