Labour member or supporter? Have your say As the SKWAWKBOX revealed tonight – and in spite of confusion created by the corporate media – Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) will […]
Former Labour, former TIG, former CUK MP Joan Ryan has announced that she will not stand again in Enfield North at the next general election. It seems the demand for […]
Low branch turn-out allows Watson through Tom Watson has survived tonight’s ‘trigger’ vote, with a very low turn-out voting to retain him as members unaligned with Watson stayed away. A […]
Labour’s unpopular deputy leader Tom Watson is facing a vote of West Bromwich East Labour members on Tuesday evening to decide whether he should be ‘triggered‘ – should face a […]
Shadow Cabinet was put up for reselection first among Labour MPs. Party leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary easily won reselection on Tuesday night Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Foreign […]
Boris Johnson has suffered his fourth defeat in a row, with his attempt to use the Fixed Term Parliaments Act (FTPA) to set a general election date before he is […]
Meriden MP voted with Johnson last night but against him today Sharp-eyed observers may have spotted that Boris Johnson lost a vote today by one vote more than he did […]
Boris Johnson has become the first Prime Minister since Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, the third Marquess of Salisbury, to lose his first House of Commons vote, according to BBC Newsnight. SKWAWKBOX view: […]
Legislation planned to reduce required Commons majority to one Boris Johnson, fearful that he may be unable to obtain the two-thirds majority to call an early general election under the […]
Today’s events – and Queen’s inevitable compliance – mean 5 December likeliest date for new general election The Queen has granted Boris Johnson’s request to prorogue Parliament, preventing MPs’ wish […]