Longstanding Corbyn supporter and union activist Paula Barker has strolled home in the selection of Labour’s candidate to replace defector Luciana Berger as the party’s candidate for Liverpool Wavertree. Barker, […]
Bell Ribeiro-Addy is the left choice in a shortlist that also includes two senior councillors from centrist-run Lambeth Hustings and the vote for Labour’s candidate to replace defector Chuka Umunna […]
Lucy Burke is local left’s pick but Young Labour endorsed different candidate without consulting locals Hustings and the vote by Bury South Labour members for their new parliamentary candidate take […]
Local MP Streeting also continues support A group of Labour councillors in Redbridge have announced that councillor and would-be parliamentary candidate Jas Athwal will remain as council leader in spite […]
Truncated selection process to ensure members can choose candidates before general election should also increase number of left candidates and MPs The senior ‘officers group’ of Labour’s National Executive Committee […]
David Pinto-Duschinsky has won selection as PPC (prospective parliamentary candidate) for Hendon. Duschinsky won the nomination of his CLP’s seven branches and won the one-member-one-vote selection in the first round […]
This afternoon in Hendon, local members will vote to select the constituency’s next parliamentary candidate. The seat is a marginal, won by Tory Matthew Offord last year by only […]
Advocates of ‘open selection’ continue to make noise about the decision of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) to put forward an ‘affirmative ballot’ process for the selection of Labour’s parliamentary […]
West Midlands Labour MP Ian Austin is the subject of at least two formal complaints by fellow Labour MPs Ian Lavery and Chris Williamson relating to at least three instances of […]
The SKWAWKBOX last night covered Theresa May’s extraordinary, even unprecedented, weakness and cowardice when she not only whipped Tory MPs to defeat her own Brexit proposals to placate ‘extreme-Brexit Ultras’ […]