All news on the topic: Labour Party

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Reform UK to put young British workers "front of the queue" for social housing
Reform UK are set to unveil fresh plans to overhaul the social housing system in the UK, by prioritising British-born youth over foreign nationals and asylum seekers.
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Labour’s North Sea crackdown could wipe out 113,000 oil and gas jobs by 2050
Britain’s North Sea oil and gas sector will see more than 100,000 jobs disappear over the next 25 years, according to figures from the Labour Government.
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Angela Rayner accused of opening the door to "garden grabbing" as Labour struggles to build homes
Angela Rayner has watered down housing restrictions on new homes as Labour scrambles to hit its building targets.
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Andy Burnham warned snap election could trigger "carnage" for Labour
Andy Burnham has been urged not to call a snap General Election over fears it would cause "carnage" for the Labour Party.
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Labour plunged back into freebies row as MPs pocket more than £400,000 in gifts and hospitality
Labour has been plunged right back into the freebies row which derailed the early days of Sir Keir Starmer’s time in power after MPs were caught snapping up hundreds of thousands of pounds in "gifts".
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Britain could save £320billion by ditching Labour’s Net Zero power plans, report claims
Britain could save £320billion over 20 years by ripping up current Net Zero electricity plans, keeping gas and building more nuclear power instead, a major new report claims.
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Foreign nationals claiming Universal Credit hit record 1.3 million as welfare costs soar
Foreign nationals receiving Universal Credit reached a new record of nearly 1.3 million in May 2026, according to fresh data.
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Andy Burnham received almost £350,000 in political support and hospitality before entering No10
Andy Burnham was given support and hospitality worth nearly £350,000 in the four months before becoming Prime Minister alone.
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Labour warned it could lose 50 seats to Greens over Andy Burnham’s North Sea drilling plans
Andy Burnham has been told Labour risks losing 50 seats to the Green Party if he pushes ahead with new drilling in the North Sea.
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Andy Burnham accepted thousands in gifts and £229,000 in campaign donations before entering No 10
ndy Burnham accepted more than £350,000 of donations and freebies in the run-up to becoming Prime Minister, his first register of interests reveals.
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Andy Burnham’s farming minister faints “at the sight of meat” during farm tour
Andy Burnham’s new farming minister fainted "at the sight of meat" after becoming unwell during a tour of a beef freezer.
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Labour MP suspended amid questions over £50,000 Covid loan
A Labour MP has been suspended from the party amid questions surrounding whether he tried to avoid repaying a taxpayer-funded Covid loan.
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Villages revolt as Labour plans to house 1,200 asylum seekers at former military bases
Villages across England have been left up in arms after the Government confirmed it is continuing plans to house up to 1,200 asylum seekers at three former military bases in Oxfordshire, North Yorkshire and Suffolk.
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Yvette Cooper admits Labour has "not done government very well" under Starmer
Yvette Cooper admits Labour has “not done government very well” in the last couple of years, and accused Keir Starmer’s No 10 of sidelining her during the launch of a key immigration policy when she was home secretary.
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Labour asylum plan sparks fury as 1,200 men could be moved into tiny Yorkshire village
Women will be left "outnumbered six to one" if Labour floods a tiny Yorkshire village with more than a thousand "asylum seekers".
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Peter Mandelson’s Epstein ties exposed as emails reveal a relationship far closer than he admitted
A new investigation by The Observer describes exactly how Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘best pal’ embedded himself within the heart of government and then crashed out of it, taking the prime minister with him
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Labour retakes poll lead as Andy Burnham’s popularity surges
Labour is now more popular among British voters than Reform UK, with exclusive LBC polling showing Andy Burnham’s party open up a three-point lead in the opinion polls.
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Kemi Badenoch pledges to evict foreign nationals from social housing if Tories win next election
The Tories claim around 230,000 homes would become available as a result of their plan to limit social housing entitlements.
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Labour loses more than 68,000 members in a year as party support plunges to decade low
The Labour Party lost more than a fifth of its members in 2025, figures published by the Electoral Commission reveal.
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Nearly 10,000 domestic abusers could be released early under Labour prison reforms
Nearly 10,000 domestic abusers are set to walk free within three years under Labour’s early prison release scheme.
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Tory MP condemns plan to house 1,250 migrants in Oxfordshire village
Katie Lam has slammed Labour’s “totally inappropriate” plan to house 1,250 migrants in the tiny Oxfordshire village of Piddington.
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Former Labour MP says Tories should block ex-neo-Nazi from standing in local elections
A former Labour MP has said the Conservatives should not allow a former neo-Nazi who was jailed for antisemitic abuse against her to stand as a local election candidate.
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Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice investigated over Israel trip declaration in Parliament
Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, is under investigation by Parliament’s standards watchdog over whether he should have prefaced his remarks in a House of Commons debate on pro-Israel influence by noting that he had visited the country as a guest of a pro-Israel group.
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Farage’s Channel migration plan rejected by France and Downing Street as illegal
Nigel Farage’s desperate small boats plan has been dismissed as impractical and illegal as he attempts to divert attention from sleaze allegations.
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Reform UK attacks Andy Burnham over holiday abroad after first weeks in office
Andy Burnham has been accused of "bunking off for a jolly" after it was revealed he would be taking a holiday a little over two weeks into his term.