Ex-minister Andy Burnham boasts Labour would have held more Red Wall seats at the 2019 election if he had beaten Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour leadership in 2015 in further sign he is plotting to lead party He plans to run for leadership after the next election if he has enough support Burnham was distant … Read more
Thousands of protesters have marched through Hyde Park in solidarity with the people of Palestine amid the ongoing conflict with Israel. Organisers say ‘immediate action’ is needed by the UK Government to help end the ‘brutal’ violence against the Palestinian people. At midday on Saturday, demonstrators arrived at Hyde Park near Marble Arch to march … Read more
Jeremy Corbyn today blasted ‘weak’ Keir Starmer for blaming him for Labour’s election meltdown, and demanded the party returns to his ‘popular’ hard-Left policies. The former leader tore into Sir Keir for ‘dumping’ on him in the wake of the dire Super Thursday results – which moderates blamed on ‘Long Corbyn’ in a grim reference … Read more
The peaceful protestor who was the victim of a shocking two-footed attack close to Downing Street was a 68-year-old grandfather, MailOnline can reveal. Former Bank of England economist Jonathan Hoffman, 68, said he was terrified as he and fellow pro-Israel protesters were spat upon and assaulted in Whitehall – and thinks they would have been … Read more
Violence erupted in London yesterday as pro-Palestine protesters clashed with police during a demonstration against the continued conflict in the Middle East. Dozens more people, including as many as ten children, have been killed overnight as Israel and Hamas fired retaliatory missile strikes, with the UN’s Security Council due to meet today to discuss the … Read more
Rachel Riley claims she was libelled by a former Jeremy Corbyn staffer who ‘dog whistled’ her followers to cause a Twitter ‘pile on’, the High Court heard today. The Countdown maths ace told the court her view is that the Corbyn-led Labour Party was ‘fostering antisemitism’ – and she felt ‘affronted’ at being called ‘dangerous and stupid’ … Read more
Labour showed they ‘don’t care about Jews’ by appointing a former Jeremy Corbyn aide to head up the party’s complaints team the day after she was involved in a Twitter spat with TV star Rachel Riley, a court today heard. The Countdown maths ace today told the High Court she was surprised by the timing … Read more
Diane Abbott urged beleaguered Labour leader Keir Starmer to campaign to bring back freedom of movement between the UK and the EU today – after a weekend of humiliation at the hands of voters in the party’s Brexit-backing former heartlands. The hard Left former shadow home secretary urged Sir Keir to return to promoting 10 … Read more
As Labour descends into civil war, some of the sharpest post-election criticism of Sir Keir Starmer has come from the Blairite wing of the party. Lord Adonis, who was Blair’s policy chief, has called for Starmer to go. But is Momentum, the hard-Left organisation set up to bolster Jeremy Corbyn’s ill-fated leadership, limbering up to … Read more
Boris Johnson’s Conservatives open up a 14-point poll lead off the back of the vaccine roll-out as Keir Starmer’s Labour slumps to its worst vote share under his leadership The Conservatives now have a 14-point poll lead going into May’s local elections The Tories were up 2 per cent on 43 per cent in the … Read more