Tag: Labour Party (UK)

• Thursday, February 21st 2019 - 15:33 UTC

  Labour and Tories face more resignations with Independent Group growing

  

  British Labour and Conservatives parties could face more resignations, with members of the new Independent Group saying they expect more MPs to join them. Ex-Tory MP Heidi Allen told ITV's Peston program “a third” of Tory MPs were fed up with the party's direction.

• Thursday, February 21st 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  Corbyn tells Labour quitters they should “resign and put themselves up for election”

  

  Labour MPs who have quit the party should “resign and put themselves up for election”, Jeremy Corbyn has said. In a Twitter video, the Labour leader said it was the “democratic thing to do” because they wanted to “abandon the policies on which they were elected”.

• Monday, February 11th 2019 - 07:16 UTC

  Epistolary exchange between PM Mrs. May and Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn

  

  Theresa May has responded to Jeremy Corbyn's letter setting out his five demands for a Brexit deal. The prime minister queried his call for the UK to stay in a customs union with the EU - but welcomed more talks with Labour on a Brexit agreement.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  PM May Monday speech to impede “catastrophic” defeat in Parliament and Labour no confidence vote

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May is making a last-ditch attempt to persuade MPs to back her Brexit deal as Tuesday's key Commons vote looms closer. She will use a speech on Monday to warn that Parliament is more likely to block Brexit than let the UK leave with no deal.

• Saturday, December 1st 2018 - 22:54 UTC

  Corbyn-supportive AMLO sworn in as Mexico's president

  

  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been sworn in as Mexico's new president, after his landslide win in July. The 65-year old AMLO, as he is more commonly referred to, is starting his six-year term with a promise to end corruption, poverty and extreme violence.

• Monday, November 5th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  UK's top lawyers and business leaders have urged for another Brexit referendum

  

  Members of Parliament have been urged to back another Brexit referendum by 1,400 of the UK's top lawyers. They have written to Prime Minister Theresa May to say that Parliament should not be bound by the 2016 vote. “Democratic government is not frozen in time,” the letter said.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Shadow Chancellor sets out conditions for Labour's support to a Brexit deal

  

  Brexit deal involving a customs union and a “close” relationship with the single market would win a majority in the Commons and have the backing of business, John McDonnell has said. The shadow chancellor said Labour MPs would vote in favor of a Brexit deal that “protects jobs and the economy” but acknowledged that was “not the way it is at the moment” under Theresa May’s strategy.

• Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 05:43 UTC

  Labour ready to govern, says Corbyn, and to support a “sensible” Brexit deal

  

  Labour is “ready” to start work on a “radical plan to rebuild and transform our country”, Jeremy Corbyn has told his party conference in Liverpool. The Labour leader also offered to back Theresa May if she presented a “sensible” Brexit deal to MPs for approval, but he said that Labour would oppose the PM's current plan “or whatever is left of it”, and vowed to fight any move to leave the EU without a deal.

• Monday, September 24th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

  Brexit: Labour conference expected to vote keeping “all options on the table”

  

  British Labour party members are to vote on keeping “all options on the table” on Brexit, including possibly campaigning for a new referendum at their conference. Party power brokers have agreed on the wording for Tuesday's motion on what the party should do about Brexit if it cannot get a general election.

• Saturday, August 4th 2018 - 12:44 UTC

  Jeremy Corbyn: Labour is not a threat to Jewish life in Britain

  

  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said “people who dish out anti-Semitic poison need to understand: you do not do it in my name”. In an article for The Guardian he said anti-Semitism was a “real problem” that Labour was “working to overcome”. But he did not give in to demands to adopt all the examples of anti-Semitism cited by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).