A large number of Nottingham East Labour members, among them senior elected figures including the council leader, have signed an open letter telling centrist MP Chris Leslie to ‘consider [his] […]
Earlier this evening, Streatham Labour members voted to switch to all-member meetings – in spite of fierce resistance by supporters of local centrist MP Chuka Umunna, who admitted they fear […]
ITV’s Paul Brand put out a tweet this morning claiming that ‘hundreds’ of Labour CLPs (constituency Labour parties) have submitted motions to the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) calling for […]
As the SKWAWKBOX has shown over the last couple of weeks, polls demonstrate that most Labour members do not back a new Brexit referendum and support Corbyn’s approach to the […]
On Friday night, ‘centrist’ Penistone and Stocksbridge MP Angela Smith received a 27-20 – a good turn-out for a delegate-based CLP – vote of no confidence from her CLP (constituency […]
1950s-born women have suffered insult on top of injury in the course of their WASPI (Women Against State Pensions Age Increase) campaign to restore pensions stolen from them by Tory […]
The various Brexit-related motions submitted to Labour’s conference have been ‘composited’ down to a single version that will be debated and voted upon by delegates – and it contains a […]
Almost unmentioned in the media – apart from a tweet by the Manchester Evening News’ Jennifer Williams pointing to “the second half of a downpage story in the times [sic], […]
Former Copeland MP Jamie Reed can safely be considered an entrenched opponent of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. He accused Corbyn of “injecting poison into the party” after the EU referendum, resigned […]
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, […]