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LONDON (Bywire News)- The BBC has been criticised on social media after rewording prime minister Boris Johnson's highly controversial comments about letting "the bodies pile high in their thousands" to a completely different statement that sounds far less damaging. On Sunday, the Daily Mail alleged ...

LONDON (Labour Buzz) - It’s been an exciting week for the leaders with both getting down and dirty with the great unwashed. Boris had found out about the concept of association football, while Starmer had enjoyed his first pub fight. What would they find to talk about today? Round one: Things that s...

This article was collectively written by Jon Trickett, the Labour MP for Hemsworth, Ian Lavery, the Labour MP for Wansbeck, and Laura Smith, the former Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich and a current Labour Councillor for Crewe South. In recent years, the polling industry has suffered more than a few...

LONDON (Bywire News) - An advisor to the United Nations has severely criticised the UK's public broadcaster, the BBC, for totally ignoring Western human rights abuses during a fierce debate about US foreign policy and the environment on Wednesday night's Newsnight programme. Professor Jeffrey Sachs,...

WESTMINSTER (Labour Buzz) - Starmer’s challenge was to make the scandal relevant to voters and to drag Johnson into the mess. He managed that and more in his best performance for some time.  Round one: Greensill capital   Starmer began by paying tribute to Shirley Williams, Ian Gibson and dame Chery...

LONDON (Bywire News) - You know how sometimes a TV show produces a twist that absolutely everyone knew was coming? Well, that’s the kind of show the life of Boris Johnson would be as Jennifer Arcuri revealed to the Mirror that she did indeed sleep with British Prime Minister, over a four-year affair...

WESTMINSTER (Labour Buzz) - Keir Starmer’s first big voting test getting near with next month’s Hartlepool by-election, and it’s not going well. A new poll gives the Tories a seven-point lead in a seat which Jeremy Corbyn won in both 2017 and 2019. Barring a miracle, therefore, it seems the Conserva...

LONDON (Labour Buzz) - The fact-checking organisation Full Fact is calling for government communications to serve the people rather than the narrow interests of politicians. It’s a call that comes from the way in which the controversial report on racism was released to the public.  Anger at the repo...

Round one: Army cuts WESTMINSTER (Labour Buzz) - Starmer opened by going all-in on armed forces. Why, he asked, did the Prime Minister promise to maintain armed forces at the current levels but then cut them. He referred to the admission from defence secretary Ben Wallace, who admits troops will be ...

LONDON (Within the Law) - Anger is everywhere. Some are angry at the police, others are angry at me and some, for reasons best known to themselves are angry at Eddie Izzard. Keir Starmer has headed off to find a focus group to tell him whether he should support protests against rape, while the Conse...

WESTMINSTER (Labour Buzz) - It was a sombre and reflective PMQs dominated by the murder of Sarah Everard. Both men seemed to sense that it would be difficult to be seen to be scoring any political points from such a tragedy. That didn’t stop him from trying.  Round one: She was just walking home  St...

WESTMINSTER (Labour Buzz) - Donald Trump called it the Fifth Avenue effect, the idea that he could shoot someone dead on Fifth Avenue and people would still vote for him. Throughout all the ups and downs of this pandemic, one politician has been immune to the ups and downs of fortunes. Ironically as...

WESTMINSTER (Labour Buzz) - Starmer entered PMQs with a host of targets to pick from. He could have chosen the damning verdict on NHS test and trace, the High Courts finding that Johnson had lied to parliament or even a new book detailing his inept response to the pandemic.  Instead, he focused on j...

LONDON (Labour Buzz) - Today sees Rishi Sunak launch possibly one of the most important budgets in living memory. This will shape how the UK recovers from the pandemic and may impact our future for the next decade. Battle lines are already being drawn. From the government, opposition and media we ca...

LONDON (Labour Buzz) - Earlier in the week, the UK announced it would slash its aid to Yemen, something which the UN Secretary-General described as a death sentence for starving children. At the same time, they have been a keen seller of arms to Saudi Arabia as organising a secretive project trainin...

LONDON (Bywire News) - 120,000 dead, the biggest economic crisis in history; millions of jobs lost. The pandemic has taken a sledgehammer to the British economy and society. However, during the last ten years the country has been in the grip of another plague. It has killed more people, caused wide...

LONDON (Bywire News) - Another week and another chunk of the NHS falls into private hands. The announcement that GP practices covering half a million patients is falling into the hands of one of the biggest and badest health insurers in the US is seen as proof by many that the NHS Tory privatisation...

LONDON (Bywire News) - A Twitter user who called for Labour MP Dawn Butler to get a ‘bullet in the head’ is a former UKIP and (prospective) Brexit Party candidate, an investigation for Bywire News can reveal. The Tweet, from @peddiestephen said of the MP. “Egregious theft in a time of national emerg...

LONDON (Labour Buzz) - Starmer and Johnson faced off ahead of next week’s budget which will go a long way towards deciding what the recovery from the pandemic might look like. It was a testy exchange and one which will not have done much to encourage Keir Starmer’s growing list of doubters.   Round ...