Departing Labour donor funded Corbyn leadership opponents, offered to fund new party
The Observer, like most of the rest of the ‘MSM’ on Sunday, has joined in the mass delirium – or April Fool’s jape – of further attacks on Labour and […]
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Awkward member-numbers question the Tories really don’t seem to want to answer
Last weekend, Tory chair Brandon Lewis claimed that the number of Conservative party members had ‘soared’ to 124,000 – double most estimates: Most mainstream media have been mapping a continual […]
Review: “Rise: How Jeremy Corbyn Inspired the Young to Create a New Socialism”
Last year, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party shook the foundations of UK Establishment and remade the landscape of our politics in a ‘Corbyn surge’ that was characterised more than […]
MSM claims left panic, little support for Formby for #JenSec. Oh dear
PoliticsHome‘s Kevin Schofield has tweeted an ‘anonymous source’ claim that the left is ‘panicking’ because Unite’s Jennie Formby ‘hasn’t got enough support’ for her candidacy for the position of Labour […]
Mismatch in MP donation reporting process leaves gaping loophole for abuse
Political donations are currently a major news topic because of large sums given to Labour MP Tom Watson by Max Mosley – and allegations by Channel 4 News and a […]
Excl: Phillips misses PLP meeting on gender. Then attends Murdoch bash
Labour MP Jess Phillips is no stranger to the press. As well as being a frequent, vocal critic of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, she wrote an article for the […]
Clive Lewis cleared
A Labour preliminary investigation has cleared MP Clive Lewis of groping allegations. Due process has been followed, as it should be, and the evidence did not merit a full referral […]
Labour Future accused of imitating Labour in fundraiser email
“Labour Future” (LF) is a limited company that was set up in late 2016 by multi-millionaire Labour donor John Mills together with Brendan Chilton – the same two individuals who collaborated […]
Labour membership correction
The first part of this article originally mentioned a Labour membership figure of 800,000, based on a figure tweeted by a senior Labour MP. The SKWAWKBOX subsequently spoke to […]
Did May’s Scottish stunt breach contract, force a charity to breach its articles? #GE17
As the SKWAWKBOX covered on Saturday evening, Theresa May’s latest ‘campaigning’ event consisted of a tightly-controlled appearance at a remote village hall in Crathes, Banchory to speak to a small, […]