"Bolsover beast" Skinner endorses Burgon for deputy
Veteran Labour firebrand backs candidate: “he gives me hope – I urge CLPs and unions to vote for him” Denis Skinner, one of Labour’s best-known and best-loved MPs – except […]
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Burgon takes huge step toward final ballot with Unite endorsement. Here's how he might get over line
Final hurdle still be to crossed Richard Burgon, the only candidate in the deputy leader contest to have nominated Jeremy Corbyn in both leadership elections, took a huge step toward […]
Hustings verdict: on this showing, the excitement is in deputy contest – and leadership hopefuls have lot to learn
Reactions to deputy hustings show what could have been if left had more than one candidate in leader race Comment Yesterday the SKWAWKBOX attended both the leadership and deputy leadership […]
Video: Yaqoob relaunches campaign for W Mids mayor as Unite endorses her candidacy
The Unite union has endorsed Salma Yaqoob to be Labour’s candidate in May’s West Midlands Mayoral election, after the union’s West Midlands regional committee held a hustings in Birmingham. Yaqoob’s […]
Second fake Long-Bailey site redirects to same rival – linked to and behaves like first
Second site posing as Long-Bailey leadership candidate page sends visitors to rival site – and behaves the same when discovered Yesterday the SKWAWKBOX revealed the existence of a fake website […]
Narrow victory for Lansman as almost half reject Momentum leadership slate
Momentum members vote to back recommended leader/deputy ‘slate’ – just Momentum’s recommended ‘slate’ for the Labour leader/deputy contest has scraped through a ballot of its membership. The organisation has emailed […]
Burgon shakes up deputy contest with announcement Pidcock to chair campaign
Labour star joining campaign will rattle rivals Labour deputy leader hopeful Richard Burgon has today made an announcement that will shake up the contest and worry his rivals. The front-bencher […]
Lansman accuses SKWAWKBOX of "damaging interests of left" by reporting on his antisemitism articles
Momentum founder and Long-Bailey campaign manager makes comments in response to press enquiry The SKWAWKBOX has been running a series of articles examining Jon Lansman’s support of Rebecca Long-Bailey’s decision […]
Labour's full guidelines for constituency leadership nomination meetings
Party has published guidelines for conduct of all-member meetings to nominate leader and deputy leader candidates – and CLP reps for the NEC election The Labour Party has published guidelines […]
Breaking: Butler achieves required nominations for deputy leader contest
Front-bencher Dawn Butler has achieved the required nominations among Labour MPs and MEPs to reach the next stage of the party’s deputy leader contest. She now needs support from either […]