Gary Gibbon
Labour leadership debate: a ‘relaxed and confident’ Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn takes steps that would massively solidify his position as leader and protect him against any coup attempts.
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Ed Miliband on Fox/Disney deal: ‘I think it’s good for our broadcasting landscape’
Former Labour party leader Ed Miliband and Bloomberg’s entertainment reporter Anousha Sakoui discuss Rupert Murdoch’s decision to sell 21st Century Fox to Disney.
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Labour hit with record £20,000 fine over ‘Edstone’ tablet
The Electoral Commission imposes its biggest ever fine after Labour failed to declare Ed Miliband’s notorious stone tablet of promises in its election spending return.
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Sadiq Khan chosen as Labour’s London mayoral candidate
Former shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan is selected as Labour’s candidate for the London mayoral elections in 2016, the day before the party unveils its new leader.
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Gary Gibbon
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Labour leadership vote extended after website crash
Labour extends the deadline for people to register to vote in its leadership election after the party’s website crashed.
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Gary Gibbon
Rolling the pitch for tax credit rollback
The government is acutely aware that some of the voters critical to its victory in swing seats were workers at the lower end of the pay scale who were claiming tax credits.
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Gary Gibbon
Royal Mail sell off: Ed Miliband is back
George Osborne announces the sell-off of the last third of Royal Mail and Ed Miliband gives his first speech in nine years from the back benches.
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Cathy Newman
Women in Labour: will this pregnant pause ever end?
Despite a commitment to women’s rights from the outset, the Labour party has yet to have a female leader. Could that be about to change?
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Michael Crick
Unions in chaos over role in vote for new Labour leader
Will the unions decide the next Labour leader? Possibly – but most did not see a leadership contest coming and are scrambling to get organised.
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Gary Gibbon
Three party leaders resign within 90 minutes
Three party leaders have now resigned within an hour and a half, but Ed Miliband’s must be the biggest emotional shock to the individual concerned.
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Ed Miliband resigns as Labour leader: who will replace him?
As Labour leader Ed Miliband resigns after a crushing defeat in the general election, there are several likely successors, including Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna.
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Gary Gibbon
If that exit poll is right…
If the exit poll is right, the Tories will have lost something like only 10 seats or so to Labour. And as the results come in we may find they may have pinched some off Labour.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron ends campaign with ‘warning’
Things could be shaken up in the days to come in ways many of us won’t have forseen.
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Paul Mason
Election 2015: how will seven-party politics work?
Unless the polls are criminally inaccurate, a majority government is impossible. So the choice facing people as they put their crosses on the ballot paper is like a proxy vote.
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FactCheck: the dodgiest claims of the election campaign
The porkies have come thick and fast from all sides during this election campaign. What are the biggest fibs FactCheck has unearthed?