Labour general secretary Jennie Formby has – politely – stripped deputy leader Tom Watson of his credibility with her response to his grandstanding over Labour disciplinary procedures For the third […]
The media has claimed this evening that a motion put forward by back-bench MPs was ‘passed unanimously‘ by the ‘PLP’ – the parliamentary Labour party – calling on Labour to […]
NEC veteran Pete Willsman’s report on this week’s NEC meeting. Originally published on the Grassroots Labour site and reproduced with permission. Introduction The meeting was pretty low-key, there were no […]
As the SKWAWKBOX has reported, there was drama in Streatham this evening, as in spite of fierce resistance and the best efforts of the Labour right, members voted by a […]
The latest full meeting of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) took place earlier this week and passed off largely without contention – although the previous week’s gathering of NEC sub-committees […]
Members of Streatham CLP (constituency Labour party), which is represented in Parliament by ‘centrist’ Chuka Umunna, have told the SKWAWKBOX that they fear their executive committee is rigging a meeting […]
Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) sub-committees met on Tuesday – and one of the outcomes will trigger intense discussion and activity at constituency parties (CLPs) around the country. In 2017, […]
Bristol North West MP Darren Jones is a literal, self-defined Blairite. He has said that the politician he admires most in history is the former Labour PM now reviled by […]
The DUP has said it is abstaining on every finance bill vote tonight in order to fire a warning shot across the Tories’ bows that they are close to abandoning […]
Comment It’s one of the ironies of politics that so many politicians don’t seem to get irony. Labour deputy leader Tom Watson chose to tweet a comment about Michael Gove’s […]