All news on the topic: Labour Party

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Tories brace for three by-election defeats this week - All you need to know
Three by-elections will take place on Thursday in Conservative-held seats in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Somerton and Frome and Selby and Ainsty. Tory insiders expect to lose all of them - but could a surprise unfold in the capital?
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Jeremy Corbyn refuses to rule out bid become London Mayor and oust Sadiq Khan
The former Labour leader refused to rule out a tilt for the top job in the capital, which voters will elect next May
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'Closing railway ticket offices will hit vulnerable and elderly'
The private train companies and Tory Government will have to go back to the drawing board if the Labour mayors, marshalled by Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham, win their legal attempt to derail a consultation process dismissed as “shambolic”
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Train firms face legal action over plan to close almost every ticket office
The Labour mayors for Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Liverpool City Region, South Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are preparing to go court unless train operators halt closures of 1,000 ticket offices across England
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'I'm preparing to take legal action over rail office closures - it’s a fight we must win'
In an article for the Mirror, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham reveals that he and four other Labour mayors are set to challenge plans to shut almost 1,000 railway ticket offices across England
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Tory small boats bill 'boosts gangs behind industrial scale sexual exploitation'
In a scathing assessment of Suella Braverman's callous Illegal Migration Bill, Dame Diana Johnson told MPs that the measures will empower criminal gangs who allow women to be raped 'multiple times a day'
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Keir Starmer to be challenged over decision to keep 'cruel' two-child benefit
The controversial austerity-era policy is set to be raised at a meeting of the party's top team on Tuesday with a Shadow Cabinet source saying: 'A lot of us are deeply troubled by it'
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Former Coronation Street and EastEnders star spills on very different career
Tracy Brabin was on the cobbles for three years between 1994 and 1997 and also had a guest starring role on EastEnders in 2001 - but turned her back on acting in 2014 for a very different career
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Left-wing Mayor quits Labour with blast at Keir Starmer over 'broken promises'
North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll, who was blocked from standing for a new role as North East Mayor, said he had been left with 'no choice' but to quit the Labour Party and stand as an Independent
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'If Labour promises to spend, everyone but the Tories would be delighted'
The austerity dogma doesn't work, and the nation knows it says Fleet Street Fox. Keir Starmer needs to spend for Labour to gain full power
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'Families are terrified they will pay the price for Tories crashing the economy'
Labour candidate Danny Beales writes for The Mirror about why people should vote for him in Thursday's Uxbridge & South Ruislip by-election, which was triggered by Boris Johnson's resignation
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Rishi Sunak admits he is 'sad' at defence chief Ben Wallace's decision to quit
The Prime Minister insisted the move had been on the cards for a while, as critics said it was further evidence the Conservatives are expecting to be thrown out of office at the next election
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Labour donor warns dire economic growth is harming voters’ trust in democracy
Businessman John Mills has written a pamphlet outlining how he believes the economy can be rebooted - and it includes chasing a growth target rather than an inflation goal
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'If Labour candidates do well, it will be vital step nearer to ousting Tories'
Rising interest rates are a double attack on living standards in Britain as Sunak misses targets he set himself on the economy, NHS and Channel boats.
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'More rats will leave Sunak’s sinking ship before the next General Election'
A Tory former Minister staying to fight and lose power at the General Election named to me three more members of Rishi Sunak’s frontline team he expects to follow the Defence Secretary by jumping overboard.
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Battle for votes in Tory stronghold could cause Rishi Sunak's biggest upset yet
Voters will go to the polls in the Selby and Ainsty by-election on Thursday after MP Nigel Adams quit after failing to secure a peerage in outgoing PM Boris Johnson’s honours
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Pressure on Keir Starmer as voters urge Labour to back primary free school meals
Six out of 10 (62%) voters want the Labour leader to throw his weight behind mounting calls to make free lunches universal for primary school pupils to ensure no child gets left behind
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First-time buyers will need gigantic £102,000 deposit to purchase a home
Labour’s analysis of government figures found rocketing interest rates are now likely to require three times the £30,000 figure people had to save just a year ago
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Nuked blood: Rishi Sunak is urged to uncover the truth on missing health records
The PM has been told to fix his "broken promises" as MPs urge an investigation into missing blood records of nuclear veterans
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'Boris Johnson wasn’t just one bad apple', Angela Rayner warns in sleaze speech
Labour's Shadow Deputy Leader made the comments as she outlined her party’s plan for 'a new standards watchdog with tougher rules and stronger enforcement'
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'How can Labour level up Britain where the Tories have failed?'
Since my student years in the run-up to New Labour’s victory in 1997, we simply have not made enough progress in breaking down the barriers between the “haves’” and the “have nots”, writes Professor Graeme Atherton
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Peer who fled Nazis as child vows to fight on against cruel Tory migration bill
Lord Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK when he was just six, branded Suella Braverman's controversial Illegal Migration Bill "hostile" to asylum seekers and said peers would continue pushing to improve it
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Labour trade chief visits world's biggest steelworks as he pledges UK shake-up
Shadow International Trade Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wants to learn from Joe Biden’s “worker centric trade policy” as he shapes Labour ’s plans for government
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Tory claim that axing private school tax breaks would lead to exodus debunked
The Institute for Fiscal Studies rejected Conservative Party warnings that removing tax perks would lead to large numbers of pupils moving into the state schools system
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'Crisis could worsen for the BBC as innocent figures smeared on social media'
Why the TV star was not suspended earlier, what evidence was presented to the BBC and what did it do to establish the truth are among the questions that must be answered