Tag: Labour Party

• Monday, October 3rd 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Tory MPs furious with Liz Truss mini-budget: she's playing into the hands of Labour

  

  The shockwaves from the mini-budget presented by Prime Minister Liz Truss and her Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng are still reverberating in the markets and politically more damaging, among members of the ruling Conservative party.

• Monday, December 20th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Corbyn's brother arrested for inciting to burn MPs offices who voted for Covid-19 restrictions

  

  A prominent anti-vaccination protestor and brother of the former leader of the British Labour Party, Piers Corbyn was arrested in London over the weekend for urging people to burn down the offices of members of Parliament offices who supported imposing Covid-19 restrictions.

• Thursday, July 8th 2021 - 18:09 UTC

  UK: Labour challenges Boris on China, but the PM is “instinctively” against boycotts

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “instinctively” against boycotts after the main opposition Labour Party urged ministers and the royal family to snub the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights claims.

• Thursday, December 31st 2020 - 07:19 UTC

  Labour supported Brexit accord, “a thin deal better than a chaotic no-deal rupture”, Keir Starmer

  

  The House of Commons on Wednesday approved by an ample majority the EU/UK post Brexit deal, but this did not impede some lawmakers complain about being given only five hours in Parliament to scrutinize a deal that will mean profound changes for Britain’s economy and society.

• Monday, November 2nd 2020 - 06:25 UTC

  Following New Zealand norm, next government will include two Green ministers

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party on Sunday signed an agreement with the Green Party to form government in the Pacific nation of nearly five million.

• Monday, October 19th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Ardern's landslide victory means New Zealand's next parliament to be the most inclusive ever

  

  New Zealand's next parliament is set to be the most inclusive ever, with several people of color, members from the rainbow communities and a high number of women. The ruling Labour Party was handed a resounding mandate in the election over the weekend, as voters rewarded Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her decisive response to COVID-19.

• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 06:07 UTC

  New Zealand Ardern ready to step down if she loses Saturday general election

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday that she will step down as leader of the center-left Labour Party if opinion polls prove to be wrong and she loses Saturday's general election.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Johnson: Coronavirus, a disaster for the UK; Labour leader Starmer: PM has been asleep on the wheel

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the coronavirus crisis had been a disaster for the United Kingdom and while the government would look at what went wrong, it was not the right time to have an inquiry into missteps.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  Labour leader sacks education spokeswoman on “anti Semitic” controversy

  

  The new leader of Britain's main opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, sacked his education spokeswoman Rebecca Long-Bailey on Thursday after she shared an article online which included a reference to what he called an “anti-Semitic conspiracy theory”.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  New Labour leadership confirms support for Falklands and self determination

  

  The British Labour Party this week reaffirmed its commitment to the Falklands and Falkland Islanders’ right to self-determination.