Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says Labour will commit to the triple-lock guarantee to increase state pensions by at least 2.5%, until 2025, if it wins the next election.
A continuing row about Mr Livingstone’s membership of the party has followed a disciplinary panel that stopped short of expelling him. That led the writer and comedian David Baddiel to post on Facebook setting out just why he believes Ken Livingstone’s comments are wrong.
Labour MP Angela Eagle, former shadow business secretary whose Merseyside constituency includes many workers at the Vauxhall plant, and Lord Howard, former leader of the Conservative party.
Jeremy Corbyn has told his party faithful “it’s not the time to run away” – but as the recriminations over Labour’s Copeland by election defeat mount up, there are plenty within his own ranks who wish he’d do just that. And even his own supporters seem reluctant to rally round.
Labour’s Shadow Attorney General, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti.
Snatching catastrophe from the jaws of defeat: Jeremy Corbyn has resisted the growing clamour for him to step down after Labour’s humilating result in Copeland, an area it’s held for decades. There was some consolation when Labour managed to hold on to Stoke-on-Trent, seeing off Ukip’s challenge.
The Labour leader hits back at Mr Blair’s call yesterday for people to rise up against Brexit. He described that intervention, just a week before a crucial by-election in Stoke, as “not helpful.”
Gary Gibbon
The Government has minimised a Tory rebellion by offering Parliament a final vote on the Brexit deal. But MPs would have to choose between the deal – or no deal. The government has fought off the most dangerous of amendments to the Article 50 Bill by a majority of 33. That number, they hope, will subdue the…
Labour MP John Woodcock and Ukip Chairman Paul Oakden.
His time in the Commons was, he said, both deeply rewarding and intensely frustrating: with that, the leading Labour MP Tristram Hunt announced he was stepping down from Parliament.
It was billed as Jeremy Corbyn’s vision for post-Brexit Britain, signalling Labour’s willingness to accept curbs on immigration from the EU as part of any deal.
Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, Clive Lewis, and Ukip MEP Patrick O’Flynn debate Corbyn’s pledges.
Gary Gibbon
He’d like to introduce a rule banning companies exceeding the pay ratio from government contracts.
Jeremy Corbyn has been given something of an awkward Christmas present by one of his MPs. Jamie Reed is to resign his seat of Copeland in Cumbria at the end of January.
Interview with TUC general Secretary Frances O’Grady
