Labour has narrowed the Tory lead to just two points this week as support for the Boris Johnson and the Conservatives dropped after the Government’s exams fiasco. A YouGov poll found that public support for the Tories had dropped four points to 40 per cent while Labour was up three to 38 per cent from … Read more
Labour MP Dawn Butler has thrown her weight behind a campaign to boycott the BBC for 24 hours today over the corporation’s use of the N-word in recent TV news reports. More than 18,000 people complained last month after a report by social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin on a suspected racially-motivated attack in Bristol saw … Read more
A Labour peer is coaching teachers on how they can refuse returning to the classroom without breaking the law, a leaked dossier has revealed. John Hendy QC, one of the country’s preeminent labour law scholars, has briefed various teachers’ unions on how their members can avoid the sack by using employee protection laws, according to … Read more
Labour MP Dawn Butler accuses Met Police of racially profiling after they stopped her driving through Hackney The MP for Brent Central tweeted she had been stopped by police in Hackney Ms Butler, parliament’s third black female MP, later released heated footage Chief Superintendent Roy Smith confirmed there had been a police stop By Jack … Read more
Jeremy Corbyn accuses Labour party officials of ‘sabotaging’ his 2017 election campaign by diverting funds away from ‘winnable’ target seats Former leader and aides accused party staff of trying to sabotage 2017 election Officials ‘were uncooperative and refused to give resources to winnable seats’ Accusations denounced as ‘a mythical “stab in the back” conspiracy theory’ … Read more
Dominic Cummings faced the media on May 25 to give a day-by-day account of his battle against coronavirus and his controversial journey to his parents’ farm in Durham. The Prime Minister’s top aide faced an hour-long television grilling at Downing Street after it emerged on Saturday he had travelled 260 miles north from London with … Read more
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby defends Labour MP who was slammed for joining criticism of the phrase ‘people with a cervix’ rather than ‘women’ The Reverend Justin Welby branded Duffield as a ‘brilliant constituency MP’ It comes after the Labour MP, 49, was accused of transphobia on Twitter Rw was sparked when Duffield ‘liked’ a post … Read more
Secret UK trade documents used by then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to attack the Government were stolen by Russian hackers from the email account of former international trade secretary Liam Fox, it was reported today. The Department of International Trade documents on post-Brexit trade talks with the US were brandished by the hard Left MP at … Read more
Unite chief Len McCluskey ramps up threat to cut Labour funding over Keir Starmer’s ‘reckless’ payout to anti-Semitism whistleblowers Len McCluskey has said it is ‘perfectly legitimate’ for Unite to look at donations Union baron voiced concerns about decision to settle case with whistleblowers Labour is paying damages to staffers who blew whistle over anti-Semitism … Read more
Labour MP Barry Sheerman apologises for ‘anti-Semitic tweet’ about ‘a run on silver shekels’ after Jewish businessmen missed out on peerages Barry Sheerman, the MP for Huddersfield, was accused of an ‘anti-Semitic trope’ He had tweeted: ‘Apparently there has been a bit of a run on silver shekels!’ Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure from … Read more