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
Keir Starmer‘s attempted relaunch after Labour’s election disaster fell flat today after he blinked first in a standoff with Angela Rayner. The leader has suffered another major blow to his authority amid claims he wanted to shift his deputy into the health brief after stripping her of responsibility for campaigns – but she refused. In … Read more
An embattled Sir Keir Starmer tonight rearranged his deckchairs as he chopped and changed his shadow cabinet in a make-or-break reshuffle. In a bold, but not unexpected move, the stumbling Labour leader demoted party favourite Anneliese Dodds from the key role of shadow chancellor. He replaced her with Oxford educated former Bank of England worker … 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
New by-election woe for Keir Starmer as ex-Coronation Street actress Tracy Brabin wins race to be West Yorkshire mayor meaning she will have to QUIT as Labour MP for Batley & Spen Labour MP Tracy Brabin has today been elected as the first West Yorkshire mayor But she will now step down from her Westminster … Read more
The seeds of Sir Keir Starmer’s humiliation on Thursday were sown nine years ago on a cold February evening in a House of Commons bar, when Labour MP Eric Joyce punched two Tory politicians. By starting the blood-soaked confrontation, the former Labour MP for Falkirk set off a chain of events that could lead to … Read more
Diane Abbott today demanded Keir Starmer returns to the ‘popular’ Socialist policies from the Jeremy Corbyn era as Labour plunged further into civil war. The former shadow home secretary lashed out at Sir Keir as she insisted Mr Corbyn only led the party to its worst general election defeat since 1935 due to an ‘extraordinary … Read more
Desperate Keir Starmer has drafted in a New Labour pollster as his strategy chief as he faces civil war after the disastrous Super Thursday elections. Deborah Mattinson, a key adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has been appointed to the critical role as Sir Keir tries to rebuild his shattered leadership – including dropping … Read more
Boris Johnson completes Tory election hat-trick as Andy Street romps to victory in the West Midlands to add to wins in the Hartlepool by-election and Tees Valley mayoral vote and pile more misery on Labour Conservative Andy Street romped home to remain mayor of the West Midlands It came after win in the Hartlepool by-election … Read more
Andy Burnham piled more pressure on Labour leader Keir Starmer today as he lashed out at the party for being too ‘London-centric’. The former health secretary, who quit as an MP after losing the leadership to Jeremy Corbyn, also hinted that he would be prepared to have another tilt at the top job after being … Read more