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English patriotism is on the rise, with increasing numbers of people identifying as solely English rather than British, a survey has found.

The British government should spend more on legal aid to help migrants successfully apply for asylum in the UK, a Labour MP has suggested.

A Labour shadow minister has reacted furiously after discovering a joke poster lampooning the age of so-called ‘child migrants’ in a communal kitchen in Westminster.

The leader of the Labour Party is considering ways around the Equalities Act to enact discriminatory short lists to force more disabled, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender), and black people into parliament, regardless of merit.

(Reuters) – With the re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader unlikely to heal deep rifts in Labour, the only significant opposition that Prime Minister Theresa May looks likely to face as she plots Britain’s divorce from the EU is from

Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, Diane Abbott, has claimed racists who want to see “less foreign-looking people on their streets” drove the Brexit vote, which “added another turn of the screw to rising racism”.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has rallied behind his domestic violence spokeswoman, Sarah Champion, after she admitted spending a night in a police cell for beating her husband with a framed painting.

A Labour councillor in Scotland has been suspended after allegedly referring to LGBT people as “deviants”. Tom McAughtrie, who has served as a councillor in the Labour party for more than 30 years in Dumfries and Galloway, has been placed

More than half of people who voted Labour at the last election and then voted Leave in the Brexit referendum have now abandoned the party, a new poll has found. The YouGov poll of 3,285 adults found just 48 per

(AFP) – Opposed by most of his own MPs but lionised by grassroots activists, socialist Jeremy Corbyn is tipped to fight off a leadership challenge while pitching Britain’s Labour Party into an increasingly uncertain future. The 67-year-old is set to

(AFP) – Britain’s Labour Party faces deadlock in a power struggle between the party’s centrist lawmakers and its leftist leader Jeremy Corbyn, as ballots closed Wednesday in a leadership challenge against him. Corbyn is expected to win by a clear

LONDON (Reuters) – Former British prime minister Tony Blair, who built a multi-million pound business network advising multi-national corporations and governments after leaving office in 2007, said on Tuesday he was planning to close his commercial ventures and concentrate on not-for-profit activities.

The Far-left activist group Momentum has announced the launch of Momentum Kids, an initiative designed to draw children into political activism with an eye on influencing politics for the next generation.

TEL AVIV – A Member of Parliament from the British Labour Party has called on the Home Secretary to bar a senior Palestinian officials and election contender from entry into the UK for inciting to terrorism.

LONDON (AFP) – One year after his election, Jeremy Corbyn is leading the most unpopular opposition Labour party in British history, according to an analysis of polls published Monday.

Labour’s shadow Foreign Minister has accused a presenter on Sky News of “sexism” after he asked, and she failed, to name the French Foreign Minister and the South Korean president.

LONDON (AP) — A powerful Labour Party lawmaker has stepped down as the chair of the U.K. Home Affairs Select Committee following a sex scandal.

Jeremy Corbyn has called for an end to after-work drinks, claiming the practice discriminates against women.

(REUTERS) – Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing head of Britain’s opposition Labour party, is set to win a leadership race with even more support than when he was first elected last year, according to a YouGov poll in The Times on Wednesday.

The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party has refused to say whether he would defend a NATO ally if one was invaded by Russia.

Professor Brian Cox undoubtedly has the prettiest lips in the world of celebrity physics. That – together with his cute, knowing little half-smile; his Charlatans-style haircut; and his early incarnation as keyboard player with New Labour’s favourite one-hit-wonder band D:Ream – explains why he has become the BBC’s go-to popular science presenter.

The Labour MP calling for Philip Davies MP to be sacked for addressing a men’s right’s group has attended gender segregated Muslim events and was selected to stand for parliament on a discriminatory all-woman shortlist.

The nomination of Shami Chakrabarti for a peerage just weeks after she published a report finding no indication of institutional anti-Semitism within the Labour Party proves that the report was a “fraud” and a “whitewash”, Jewish leaders have said.

A report confirming that anti-Semitism did occur within Oxford Union Labour Club (OULC) has been leaked three months after the Labour Party took measures to suppress its publication.

A senior Labour MP has called for male migrants coming from Syria to the UK to receive formal lessons to prevent against sexual assault. She added that British men also need the classes, which would “provide information on how they should interact with women”.

Angela Eagle MP has received death threats and had a brick thrown through here office window after launching a leadership challenge against Labour’s hard left leader Jeremy Corbyn.

(REUTERS) – The socialist head of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, will discover on Tuesday whether he has the automatic right to defend himself from a leadership challenge – a key moment in the running battle for control of

Angela Eagle, the Former Shadow Business Secretary, has slammed the “howl of pain” Brexit vote as she launched leadership challenge against Jeremy Corbyn.

A Labour councillor has said he will report a former Yorkshire mayor to the police for liking “racist” tweets. George McManus said tweets sent and ‘liked’ by Heather Venter would “cause racial and religious hatred” and that they were “designed

Jeremy Corbyn wants to “destroy” Labour and turn it into the Socialist Workers Party, a senior peer has claimed. Labour peer Lord West said the country needs a strong opposition to counter the Conservative government, and believes Jeremy Corbyn is more interested

A Labour peer, who last week launched a report on the future of public broadcasting, has called for a rethink on impartiality laws. Lord Puttnam said Brexit voters are ignorant, and his remarks have been echoed by BBC Today presenter

The Campaign Against Antisemitism has warned that British Jews will continue to “worry” about their future in Britain, following Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s appearance yesterday in front of a Parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism. Mr. Corbyn’s leadership has been dogged by

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn wrote his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, on Thursday, turning down his invitation to come to Israel.

In a stunningly honest admission by Labour leader and Remain campaigner Jeremy Corbyn, a vote to remain as member of the European Union (EU) would mean NO limit to migration to the United Kingdom. Speaking this morning on the BBC’s

The media and Remain supporters are rushing to blame the campaign for the UK to leave the European Union (EU) for the attack on Labour MP Joe Cox.

Labour’s shadow Europe minister has attacked “older white men” as a “problem”, instructing those campaigning to stay in the European Union (EU) to focus on women and the young. Pat Glass, the MP for North West Durham, made the comments during