Exclusive: the moment and real reason Karie Murphy lost her LOTO position
Labour Chief of Staff’s change of role – the media spin and the reality The mainstream media – heavily briefed by politicians close to John McDonnell – have constructed a […]
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Watson, McDonnell, Starmer, Thornberry ride roughshod over Labour policy. Here are MPs that might save it
‘Take-over’ reflected in sudden push of ‘referendum-first’ plan by front-benchers – riding roughshod over Labour’s agreed policy Hard on the heels of the John McDonnell-driven removal of key Corbyn staff […]
Excl: left hopeful for seat vacated by Gapes quits contest – to swing behind RIGHT-winger
Bizarre development in Ilford South candidate race One of two left hopefuls to become Labour’s candidate in the Ilford South constituency – vacated by the departure of Mike Gapes to […]
Conference speakers and reaction suggest Thornberry and co have badly misjudged member views on Brexit
Speeches supporting Corbyn position receiving far bigger reaction than those calling for full-remain position The overwhelming majority of speakers supporting the competing full-remain and pro-Corbyn motions being debated at Labour’s […]
Showstopper Beckett takes on ‘car-crash’ Thornberry to demand support for Corbyn on Brexit
Unite deputy general secretary describes Thornberry’s full-remain position as a ‘car crash’ and brings house down with speech backing Corbyn on Brexit Unite’s deputy general secretary Howard Beckett has brought […]
Excl: Unison, Lansman ‘turn on Corbyn’ in Brexit strategy ‘betrayal’
Biggest union abandons ‘TULO’ position agreed only 11 days ago to swing behind ‘full remain’ motion Labour leadership thinks would lose general election – while on same day Momentum founder […]
Video: Serwotka makes one of the great political speeches – and historic announcement
PCS union general secretary and TUC president announces first-in-a-century decision at Labour conference Union leader Mark Serwotka made a speech to Labour’s conference in Brighton this morning that Labour insiders […]
Video: BBC swallows fake Watson tweet hook, line and sinker
Broadcasts ‘quote’ put out by well-known spoof account The BBC has reported as fact a ‘quote’ by Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson – that was put out by well-known Twitter […]
Unison sided with Watson – but ‘deleted’ OWN deputy post, moving incumbent ‘out of the way’
Britains largest union has helped protect Watson from move to abolish his position – but according to insiders made same move in 2012 for similar reasons Tom Watson pleaded for […]
Video: Watson’s ‘undermining’ backfires as union leaders and Corbyn slap him down and underline party policy
Union leaders across Labour spectrum, as well as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, put Watson in his place – on the irrelevant fringe Tom Watson’s desperate, illogical attempt to disrupt Labour’s […]