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A Labour Councillor has defected to The Breakthrough Party - becoming the newly formed left-wing party's first ever elected representative. Samantha Cooper, a Town Councillor for the Woodhouse and Hainworth Ward in Keighley, Bradford, blamed Keir Starmer for her decision to switch parties. Co...
A Labour Council leader has been severely criticised after calling for the formation of an 'anti-migrant militia' to defend Britain's coastline. Brendan Chilton, the Labour Group Leader on Ashford Council in Kent, suggested that ordinary Brits could set up a "Home Guard" to repel asylum seekers arr...
A Labour Council leader has been severely criticised after calling for the formation of an 'anti-migrant militia' to defend Britiain's coastline. Brendan Chilton, the Labour Group Leader on Ashford Council in Kent, suggested that ordinary Brits could set up a "Home Guard" to repel asylum seekers ar...
The GMB Union, who represent over half a million workers across the country, have pulled funding to the Labour Party in London. The unprecedented decision comes after the union accused Labour of "political victimisation" following the sacking of a grieving employee who had worked for Islington c...
Two new polls released today show that support for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has fallen dramatically over the past fortnight - with one of today's surveys also showing Keir Starmer’s Labour closing the gap to the government to within just two points. The headline figures of today’s Surv...
LONDON <em>(Labour Buzz)</em> - It’s sleaze, sleaze, sleaze with the Conservatives as Starmer roasts Boris offer dodgy texts and dodgy deals.
https://youtu.be/l9pg-4l4vZ8 WESTMINSTER (Labour Buzz) - Parliament is back from its Easter recess and there was only one topic of conversation. The unfolding scandal surrounding Greensill Capital, and dodgy Dave’s dodgy lobbying habit. Sign up for the exclusive Labour Party Buzz Newsletter br...
Twitter spat between Femi and Owen Jones, shows that data can tell you anything you want it to.
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks with medical staff during a visit to the Whittington Hospital in London, Britain, March 15, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS
LONDON <em>(Labour Buzz</em>) - The fact-checking organisation Full Fact is calling for government communications to serve the people rather than the narrow interests of politicians.

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Starmer calls out Boris Johnson's broken promises in another heated round of PMQs.
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives an update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic during a virtual news conference inside 10 Downing Street, in central London, Britain, March 18, 2021. Tolga Akmen/Pool via REUTERS
In a fittingly downbeat session Kier Starmer attempting to focus Johnson’s mind on protecting women from rape rather than statues from paint.
Flare smoke rises over a protest at Parliament Square, following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard, in London, Britain, March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
A new book shows the person most responsible for the second spike in infections, but it’s not the one you might think.
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves Downing Street, in London, Britain, November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/File Photo
Starmer drags Johnson over the coals over a pathetic pay rise for NHS nurses.
FILE PHOTO: People walk past a mural praising the NHS (National Health Service) amidst the continuation of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, London, Britain, March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Sunak’s budget is another roadmap to austerity and shows that he and other politicians still don’t understand how public finances work.
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds the budget box outside his office in Downing Street in London, Britain March 3, 2021. REUTERS/John Sibley
With thoughts and minds turning to the upcoming budget, Sir Keir Starmer focused all his fire on the current conflict in Yemen.
FILE PHOTO: British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during a question period at the House of Commons in London, Britain February 3, 2021. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS
Next week’s budget and rising council taxes were top of the agenda in a testy Prime Minister’s Questions.
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic media briefing at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain February 22, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS
Almost a year has now gone by without allegations of abuse, racism and bullying of black female MPs being investigated.
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With more problems emerging by the day about Brexit Keir Starmer still seems reluctant to speak about the issue.
FILE PHOTO: Britain's opposition Labour Party Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer speaks to members of the media as he leaves the BBC headquarters after appearing on The Andrew Marr Show in London, Britain January 5, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

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A slow burn of a PMQs sees Starmer pushing Johnson on border controls and his painfully slow decision making.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a session on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at the House of Commons in London, Britain January 27, 2021. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS
Labour goes after the government’s crony contracts as they ramp up the pressure on the government’s misuse of public funds.
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Inauthentic, patronising and guaranteed to alienate everyone. Labour’s leaked strategy shows they don’t understand the basics of selling.
British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks to members of the media, in London, Britain January 10, 2021. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
This week’s PMQs verdict sees Starmer probe away at the government’s failure to act on Grenfell and to secure our borders.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks on as he addressees the media at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic briefing in Downing Street, London, Britain February 3, 2021. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS
Local government is in the spotlight as Labour looks at how it can build from the grassroots on up.
A public health information message is seen at a bus stop in West Ealing as the South African variant of the novel coronavirus is reported in parts of the United Kingdom amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), London, Britain, February 1, 2021. REUTERS/Toby Melville
The Tories seem to have regained their lead in the polls, despite, a record which would shame anyone. How will Labour interpret these figures?
FILE PHOTO: British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks to members of the media, in London, Britain January 10, 2021. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
This is going to be a great year for Britain, said Johnson as 2020 dawned. 100,000 deaths later he’s still looking for other people to blame.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson leads a virtual news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic inside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain January 27, 2021. Geoff Pugh/Pool via REUTERS
With Starmer self-isolating it was a virtual leader of the opposition who took on the Prime Minister, but the result was more of the same.
FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a media briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in Downing Street, London, Britain January 15, 2021. Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/Pool via REUTERS
Johnson harnesses the power of a broken record as he refuses to answer why he overruled his own Home Secretary on closing the borders.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes questions in parliament in London, Britain January 20, 2021 in this still image taken from a video. REUTERS/REUTERS TV
In yet another new low for the Prime Minister, Johnson shamelessly tries to compare poverty campaigners to Capitol Hill rioters.
FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend a cabinet meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London, Britain December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Despite multiple lockdown breaches, Boris Johnson’s dad has bypassed the wait for a second jab even as many others face delays.
FILE PHOTO: Stanley Johnson, father of Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is seen in Westminster, in London, Britain September 24, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo