Derby South MP and former Foreign and Health Secretary Margaret Beckett infamously claimed, when it began to look like Jeremy Corbyn might win the Labour leadership election in 2015, that […]
Leah Levane and Jenny Manson, co-chairs of the left-wing group Jewish Voice for Labour, submitted the following article to the LabourList site about this week’s motion by the PLP (parliamentary Labour party). Afraid […]
Theresa May’s desperation to get her Brexit agreement through Parliament appears to have deprived her of any ability to think beyond that short-term goal. According to the BBC this morning, […]
There have been dramatic scenes this afternoon in the House of Commons as the government tried desperately to prevent MPs having the opportunity to vote on an amendment calling on […]
After desperate government scrambling to prevent the amendment being tabled at all, an amendment to the ‘Business of the House’ motion has been supported by MPs by a margin of […]
Earlier today, the SKWAWKBOX wrote to former Blair spin-doctor, arch-remainer and second referendum advocate Alastair Campbell, after Campbell had tweeted an class-based attack on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his […]
Theresa May floundered during today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, as an on-fire Jeremy Corbyn attacked the government’s contempt for Parliament and its ever-worsening chaos. But during the questions from other MPs, […]
At the weekend, right-wing Labour back-bencher Chuka Umunna, perhaps rattled by the visit of his well-known and popular colleague Chris Williamson’s ‘Democracy Roadshow’ to his constituency a few days before, […]
After her humiliating surrender to her extremist Brexiteers yesterday, in which she whipped her MPs to defeat her own proposals, Theresa May tried to pull a dodge to allow her to […]
Theresa May survived a serious threat this evening when an amendment to the government’s trade bill was defeated by 307 votes to 301. The amendment, tabled by Tory remainers livid […]