Right-wing back-bencher’s claim being used to undermine Labour unity – but not happening Right-wing Labour back-bencher Barry Sheerman has claimed on social media that ‘Labour frontbenchers & whips [are] resigning […]
Johnson gifts Labour ‘Dickensian’ narrative. December election history Labour insiders are quietly happy that Boris Johnson has blundered into gifting Labour an ideal environment for a general election, as news […]
Petulant PM wants Labour to agree to rushed withdrawal agreement timetable – and support early general election as well. Labour wants him to have double helping of scrutiny Boris Johnson […]
Shadow Cabinet members make clear that MPs can’t trust Boris Johnson Senior Labour MPs have responded to Boris Johnson’s petulance after losing his attempt last night to rush his Brexit […]
Boris Johnson’s rushed timetable for exiting the EU has been defeated in the Commons, by a margin of 308-322 – slightly larger than the SKWAWKBOX predicted – just after his […]
Johnson has put deliberate holes in withdrawal agreement to provoke MPs to reject or amend it – and passing it may be best chance for Labour to thwart his plans […]
Inconveniently for the Tories, the truth is on record that they tried to block legislation creating health service A Tory minister speaking at the Conservative party conference in Manchester just […]
Boris Johnson has suffered his fourth defeat in a row, with his attempt to use the Fixed Term Parliaments Act (FTPA) to set a general election date before he is […]
In a development that would be mocked if a fiction writer made it up, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock’s amendment to the bill designed to stop a no-deal Brexit has been […]
Boris Johnson has been defeated this evening by 328 votes to 301 in the vote to allow MPs to take control of parliamentary business. He immediately responded by saying he […]