Labour peer Dianne Hayter – Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town – has been sacked from her front-bench position as a Brexit spokesperson after making comments comparing Labour staff to the […]
Leading Labour MP pins Brexit party surge on Shadow Brexit Secretary – as others demand to know his plan to stop no-deal Brexit A senior member of the Shadow Cabinet […]
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband is looking to return to a front bench position with the Labour party. Insiders say he wants a ‘big job he can get his teeth […]
The Tories disgraced themselves in the recent local election campaign, with at least eighteen councillors or candidates suspended because of vile racist, misogynist or homophobic comments – and then the party’s […]
The SKWAWKBOX’s 2017 round-up listed some of the significant impacts this blog had on the political narrative and landscape last year. The blog has made a strong start to 2018, […]
The Tories’ struggles with social media are well known, from the crash-and-burn of the ill-starred ‘Tory Momentum’ Activate account, to their congratulations to the wrong minister during last week’s excuse […]
Yesterday, the SKWAWKBOX was the only media outlet to flag that a Labour reshuffle was imminent. Today, Labour has announced the following appointments by Jeremy Corbyn to his front bench: […]
Following – and possibly accelerated by – the resignation of Chris Williamson from the Labour front bench today, a senior Labour source has told the SKWAWKBOX that opposition leader Jeremy […]
You’d think Theresa May would learn. Well, maybe you wouldn’t. But after the embarrassment of appointing Toby ‘toadmeister’ Young to the board of the new universities regulator, only to see […]
Monday’s ‘reshuffle’ of Theresa May’s cabinet was largely a non-event, with none of the ‘big beasts’ moved and Jeremy Hunt keeping his job by – allegedly – crying about it. […]