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Four MPs suspended by Labour for voting against the government on the two-child benefit cap have been readmitted into the parliamentary party. Labour has restored the whip to Richard Burgon, Ian ...
Eleven Labour councillors have been suspended from the party over their membership of a WhatsApp group that has already seen two MPs lose the whip. Former health minister Andrew Gwynne was sacked ...
A group of Labour rebels are pushing for Angela Rayner to adopt a four-day working week in her employment rights bill. More than a dozen Labour MPs, and one Green MP, have challenged the deputy ...
On 23 July 2024, Labour withdrew the whip from 7 of its MPs who had supported an amendment tabled by the Scottish National Party (SNP)'s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn to scrap it, with Flynn stating that scrapping the cap would immediately raise 300,000 children out of poverty. MPs rejected the SNP amendment by 363 votes to 103.
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. [15] [16] [17] The party has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. [18] It is one of the two dominant political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party.
[35] Former Labour Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell criticised Starmer for accepting the gifts while "talking about tough decisions and painful policies coming and possibly a new wave of austerity," adding that Labour Party founder Keir Hardie attended Parliament in "an ordinary working man’s suit instead of the usual formal ...
The Labor Party in the UK is sending over 100 current and former staff members to battleground states in the US to volunteer for Vice President Harris, sparking controversy among Republicans who ...
Change is a political manifesto published in 2024 by the British Labour Party under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer.The manifesto sets out the party's new approach to policy, ahead of their successful campaign in the 2024 general election, in which they won a landslide victory.