Party’s procedure for leader and NEC nomination meetings says no one not entitled to vote should attend – yet Barking MP, who lives outside boundary, was checking in members arriving […]
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 […]
Two branches voting: one to trigger, one to retain but result already decisive As the SKWAWKBOX reported earlier this week, Ealing Southall Labour members had already voted to ‘trigger’ Virendra […]
Edgbaston MP says she was never going to be present at votes to decide whether she will face selection contest and that notice of her attendance was ‘honest mistake’ by […]
Meeting abandoned amid chaos: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it” At the end of last month, the SKWAWKBOX reported that Barking MP Margaret Hodge had been ‘triggered‘ as local members […]
South Shields MP loses branch meeting that originally cast tied vote Popular MP Emma Lewell-Buck has been fighting a campaign of dirty tricks and abuse by the Labour right that […]
Senior Labour body may block some MPs from standing again under Labour banner Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is examining a radical response to the threat that the party’s ‘trigger‘ […]
Streatham Campaigns Ltd paying Umunna’s staff long after MP defected to TIG then LibDems – formal complaint made to Labour An ally of ex-Labour MP Chuka Umunna has thanked the […]
Move to democratise leadership elections aims to work around controversial rule blocking it Earlier this year, Labour left organisation CLPD published a motion for this autumn’s party conference asking the […]
MPs hope to exploit little known provision in their standing orders Right-wing MPs in the parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) intend to try to use a little-known clause in their standing […]