Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP after suggesting Jewish people are not subject to racism “all their lives.” Abbott, who served as shadow home secretary under the hard-left former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, made the comment in response to a comment which suggested that Irish, Jewish, and Traveller people all suffer from…

Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has blocked former leader Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s motion to block his predecessor from standing was approved by the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) on Tuesday, with 22 committee members voting for the motion and 12…

Britain should focus on fixing its “skills problem” rather than continuing to rely on migrant workers from overseas, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Talking to business leaders in the City of London on Monday, he said migration is not “the answer to all of our problems.” Starmer acknowledged there is short-term demand for…

UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s decision to block his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from standing for Labour at the next election has caused a stir among party ranks, with MPs on the far left openly voicing opposition to his move. Starmer said on Wednesday that Labour is now “unrecognisable” from its form during Corbyn’s leadership…

Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-left former Labour leader, will not be allowed to stand as a Labour candidate at the next general election, party leader Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed. Starmer said that Labour is now “unrecognisable” from its form during Corbyn’s leadership from 2015 to 2020, when it was plagued by allegations of antisemitism among…

A former Labour MP has been convicted of submitting a series of fraudulent expenses claims after a trial heard he had a serious cocaine addiction while in Parliament and owed thousands of pounds to a drug dealer. Jared O’Mara, 41, defeated the then-Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a Liberal Democrat, in the Sheffield Hallam constituency…

Eleven lawmakers from Britain’s main opposition Labour Party have withdrawn their names from a statement criticising NATO over the Ukraine crisis. The statement was issued on Feb. 18 by the “Stop The War Coalition,” a leftwing organisation that was initially launched to oppose U.S. military action in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001….

Keir Starmer has urged the Labour party to stop “squabbling over its own past,” saying “harmful and alienating” ideological contestation has made the party feel like “separate families living under one roof.” In an essay published ahead of Labour’s annual party conference in Brighton, Starmer called for unity and urged party factions to stop focusing…

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer plans to reform the way the party’s leader is elected, but is facing stiff resistance from the left wing of the party, which has warned the move could trigger a “civil war.” The current “one member, one vote” system introduced under former Labour leader Ed Miliband was widely seen as…

The British Labour Party should move on from its ongoing “civil war” and focus instead on delivering results in local authorities under its control, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said on Monday. “Labour needs to move on from the left and the right conducting this civil war within, focus on delivery now and making…