Chief rabbi says he was ‘proud’ to help keep Jeremy Corbyn out of Downing Street

Chief rabbi tells how ‘proud’ he was at helping to keep Jeremy Corbyn out of Downing Street when he warned Labour leader was ‘unfit for high office’ Ephraim Mirvis said majority of Jews ‘gripped by anxiety’ over Corbyn in No10 Chief rabbi made the unprecedented intervention in run up to last year’s election He has said … Read more

Jacinda Ardern officially becomes New Zealand prime minister for a second time

Jacinda Ardern officially becomes New Zealand prime minister for a second time as she’s joined by the country’s first Indigenous woman minister with a striking Māori tattoo Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party secured a landslide NZ election victory last month Ms Ardern and her ministers were sworn in by the Governor-General on Friday The victorious PM … Read more

Jeremy Corbyn’s backers vow to set up hard-Left ‘Old Labour’ party

Jeremy Corbyn’s hard-Left backers vow to set up breakaway ‘Old Labour’ rebel party after former leader was suspended over anti-Semitism row The radical call was made by the party’s former frontbencher Chris Williamson He said Labour was ‘dead as a vehicle for socialism…for progressive change Mr Corbyn was suspended after appearing to undermine bombshell report  … Read more

Jeremy Corbyn’s hard-Left backers vow to set up breakaway ‘Old Labour’ rebel party

Jeremy Corbyn’s hard-Left backers vow to set up breakaway ‘Old Labour’ rebel party after former leader was suspended over anti-Semitism row The radical call was made by the party’s former frontbencher Chris Williamson He said Labour was ‘dead as a vehicle for socialism…for progressive change Mr Corbyn was suspended after appearing to undermine bombshell report  … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Sir Keir Starmer says lockdown should start NOW

Sir Keir Starmer tonight called for a second national lockdown to start immediately as he claimed vindication on calling for a ‘circuit-breaker’ two weeks ago. The Labour leader also indicated that his Party will back the Tory Government in a vote on a new England-wide lockdown in the Commons. He welcomed Boris Johnson‘s plans to plunge the … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Sir Keir Starmer says new national lockdown should start NOW

Sir Keir Starmer tonight called for a second national lockdown to start immediately as he claimed vindication on calling for a ‘circuit-breaker’ two weeks ago. The Labour leader also indicated that his Party will back the Tory Government in a vote on a new England-wide lockdown in the Commons. He welcomed Boris Johnson‘s plans to plunge the … Read more

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour splitters ‘on wrong side of history’

Jack Straw says Corbyn is finished as the Labour Party is overwhelmingly united behind Sir Keir Starmer on this issue The rhetoric is inflammatory, the mood combustible. In the wake of Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party after the devastating independent report into the failure of his leadership to tackle anti-Semitism, his supporters are in … Read more

Jeremy Corbyn no longer belongs in Labour Party, says Jack Straw

Jack Straw says Corbyn is finished as the Labour Party is overwhelmingly united behind Sir Keir Starmer on this issue The rhetoric is inflammatory, the mood combustible. In the wake of Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party after the devastating independent report into the failure of his leadership to tackle anti-Semitism, his supporters are in … Read more

Cartoon of Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn branded ‘anti-Semitic’

A cartoon in the left-leaning Guardian newspaper of Keir Starmer offering Jeremy Corbyn’s decapitated head on a platter has been reported as race hate – amid a storm of anti-semitism claims. The picture, drawn by regular artist Steve Bell, was likened to Italian painter Caravaggio’s Salome with the Head of John the Baptist. It portrays … Read more