
Corbyn hero worshipped by delegates as he sets out policies of the newly radical Labour party
At times Mr Corbyn couldn’t get more than a couple of sentences out without a burst of applause.
At times Mr Corbyn couldn’t get more than a couple of sentences out without a burst of applause.
Labour is walking a difficult line, showing some ankle to the armies of disaffected Remainers who backed them in the snap election while honouring the referendum result and the Labour-supporting Brexiteers beyond London who, some MPs say, are already badgering them with emails asking what the party is playing at.
Schools across England will receive an extra £1.3 billion over the next two years, the Government has announced, but the money will come from efficiencies and savings within the department’s own budget. Justine Greening confirmed plans for a national school funding formula, saying it would be supported by extra investment. But Labour demanded to know…
A row has broken out in the Labour Party after an MP was told to publicly back Jeremy Corbyn by his supporters who have won control of her local party. Many MPs who took part in last summer’s attempt to oust Mr Corbyn now fear that hard left activists could try to take over the…
The Glastonbury festival chants Jeremy Corbyn’s name as the Labour leader introduces hip-hop act Run The Jewels. Just what is going in with British politics?
The Prime Minister and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who represents the local area, have both visited Finsbury Park Mosque today and spoken to local faith leaders and residents.
This has been a night of vindication for Jeremy Corbyn, defying his critics with Labour’s best result for almost 20 years.
Theresa May’s attempt to take advantage of Labour’s weakness in the opinion polls has sensationally backfired.
That was the most tempestuous set of results in many many years.
Sir Craig Oliver, David Cameron’s former communications director, says he expects Theresa May to be returned to power with a “significantly increased majority”. Tom Baldwin, a former director of communications at the Labour Party and a senior adviser to Ed Miliband at the last election, says if Labour loses seats, its campaign cannot be judged…
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has also been criss-crossing the country: Jon Snow caught up with him as he arrived at Colwyn Bay in North Wales, but he declined to give him an interview.
The election has been dominated over these closing days by issues of security in the wake of the London Bridge attack. The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is in Birmingham this evening, where he’s due to address a rally within the next few minutes. His speech is being beamed live to similar events around Britain.
We are joined from Manchester by the former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal, from Wakefield by the Conservative peer Baroness Warsi, and in London is Nimco Ali, social activist from the Women’s Equality Party and Alan Mendoza from the Henry Jackson Society.
Conservative Nadhim Zahawi and Labour’s Neil Coyle discuss the impact of last night’s events.
The election is debated by an 80-strong audience in Wolverhampton, which is split down the middle between those who are over 60 and those under 30, and balanced in terms of those who support parties of the left and right, as well as those who voted leave and remain in the EU referendum. They are…