All news on the topic: Labour Party

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Tories 'wasted' £100million revamping buses with 'useless' green technology
Boris Johnson's promise of a green bus revolution was plunged into fresh difficulty in April after ministers were forced to pause handing out cash for councils to revamp old diesel buses due to 'poor performance'
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Labour MP lets slip pension triple lock will be protected under Keir Starmer
Tulip Siddiq said the triple lock protection is 'safe' under Labour and the party is 'committed' to it. This is despite Keir Starmer refusing to promise it will stay after the General Election
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Rishi Sunak as unpopular as Boris Johnson was when he quit No10, poll shows
Rishi Sunak's favourability has fallen to similar levels to Boris Johnson, who resigned as PM in summer last year after months of being dragged by the Partygate scandal
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Mark Drakeford resigns as Welsh Labour leader - Statement in full
First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford, the Welsh Labour leader, has led the country since December 2018 - five years on, he has announced he will step down as FM by Easter
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Rishi Sunak told he's 'dead man walking' as he faces nightmare after Christmas
Tory rebels have threatened to torpedo Rishi Sunak's emergency Rwanda legislation unless the Prime Minister gives into their demands, with plotters warning he's 'f***ed'
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Keir Starmer admits Labour needs to do more to improve diversity in the party
The Labour leader said he wants a 'diverse' party 'that represents the communities' it wants to serve, after he was asked about concerns of a lack of diversity in its selection of new MPs
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Ex-Labour Chief Whip Nick Brown to quit as he blasts complaints process
Newcastle Upon Tyne East MP Nick Brown lost the Labour whip and was suspended from the party in September 2022 after a complaint was lodged against him
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Keir Starmer says Tories are more like Donald Trump than Sir Winston Churchill
Labour leader Keir Starmer vowed to offer the country 'serious, mundane and practical' leadership in place of the Tory 'psychodrama' and the "circus" of Westminster
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'Tory civil war is Christmas come early for Keir Starmer'
Deranged Tories calling for the return of Boris Johnson on a nightmare ticket with Nigel Farage are lost in the past.
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Just 2% of calls made to the official Covid Fraud Hotline are being investigated
Rishi Sunak has been criticised for 'turning a blind eye' to an estimated £7.2billion lost to Covid-related fraud - while Labour has pledged to retrieve lost taxpayers' cash
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Lame duck Rishi Sunak's authority collapses as demands grow for election now
As the PM Rishi Sunak faces a perilous week with the Covid Inquiry and a Tory civil war over Rwanda the Labour leader Keir Starmer says: 'Their ability to govern has collapsed'
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Keir Starmer's rarely-seen 'gorgeous' wife - NHS job, awkward blunder, faith
Who is Keir Starmer's wife? Here is everything we know about the Labour leader's partner of 15 years, Lady Victoria Starmer, who rarely appears in the limelight
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Keir Starmer tells Alan Titchmarsh he'll back farmers with 'buy British' rules
In an interview with ITV’s Love Your Weekend programme to be broadcast on Sunday morning, Mr Starmer spoke movingly to host Alan Titchmarsh about his upbringing and his late mother’s illness.
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'Boris Johnson's "sorry" was part of the tired old lines we've heard many times'
"His Ken Dodd hair had been given an extra ruffling to convince us that, as he spluttered 19 times 'I don’t remember' and failed to account for the loss of 5,000 WhatsApp messages, it was down to him being a befuddled Private Godfrey figure'
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Tory boss accused of giving up as he makes staggering admission on staff call
Conservative Party CEO Stephen Massey told an all-staff call that he was getting advice from sister parties around the world on how to bounce back after a crushing defeat
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Keir Starmer confronted on train to Glasgow by pro-Palestine protester
Keir Starmer was confronted by the pro-Palestine protester who demanded that the Labour leader call for a ceasefire while he was on a train to a charity event in Glasgow
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Ambulance worker who couldn't get to emergency for 3 hours says they must strike
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the “right to strike has to be balanced with the right of the British public to be able to go about their lives without suffering completely undue disruption”
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Starmer vows to 'halve violence against women' at meeting with victims' families
Keir Starmer listened to "utterly heart-breaking stories" from relatives of women who were killed by men as he vows to tackling violence against females if he is Prime Minister
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'Law promising truth to Hillsborough families would never happen under Tories'
Daily Mirror columnist Brian Reade says we can only hope that Keir Starmer keeps his promise of putting a Hillsborough Law on the statute books if Labour are elected
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Vapes could be available on prescription only to stop kids getting addicted
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said Labour is considering making vapes prescription-only as he accused the industry of 'crying crocodile tears' about surging use by children
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Rishi Sunak suffers humiliating Commons defeat over Infected blood scandal
MPs voted to establish a body for a full compensation scheme for thousands of patients infected with HIV and hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s
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Keir Starmer insists he doesn't agree with what Margaret Thatcher did
Labour leader Keir Starmer sparked a row by hailing the divisive Tory PM Margaret Thatcher for bringing about 'meaningful change' and 'setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism'
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Pensions triple lock at risk as Tories and Labour won't make election guarantee
Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer refused to say whether the pension triple lock would be included in their manifestos - as the PM declined to be drawn into when the next general election will be held
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Fury at 'embarrassing' Keir Starmer for praising Thatcher to woo Tory voters
As Rishi Sunak’s party continues to languish in the polls, Keir Starmer appealed to disaffected Conservatives, saying Labour would “extend the hand of friendship to you, no matter where you are or who you have voted for in the past”.