UK Labour Deputy Tom Watson in Israel to Ease Tensions Following Anti-Semitism Charges
Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader, is in Israel in an effort to build bridges after allegations of antisemitism within the party.
Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader, is in Israel in an effort to build bridges after allegations of antisemitism within the party.
A pro-Palestinian group funded a 2009 visit by Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader of the U.K. Labour Party, to Syria, where he met with President Bashar Assad, English-language reports said this week.
Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has slammed the government for not bringing more child migrants from Calais, including those who have no ties to the UK, and has called on the Home Office to speed up the process. But local council leaders have complained that they are being landed with huge bills as they are financially responsible for unaccompanied migrants.
An all-party committee of MPs has accused Jeremy Corbyn of turning the Labour party into a “safe space for those with vile attitudes towards Jewish people” in a report released today. The Home Affairs Select Committee criticises the party’s “demonstrable
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.
The Labour party in Britain continues to make headlines, with its leader Jeremy Corbyn promoting a lawmaker who seemingly compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Arabs to the Holocaust.
AFP — Bitter internal strife, plunging support among voters and surging populism: has there ever been a worse time to be a centre-left party in Europe? A dozen years ago, left-of-centre giants seemed a natural source of government in many
Jeremy Corbyn will commit Labour to fighting the next election on a platform of continued open door immigration from Europe, as controlling numbers can “fan the flames of fear” and make it “more difficult to take a holiday in Europe” for the middle classes.
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.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Soft-spoken socialist Jeremy Corbyn is the antithesis of Donald Trump. But the British politician — resoundingly re-elected leader of the opposition Labour Party on Saturday — is riding the same wave of anti-centrist sentiment that’s propelling
Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn has seen off his opponent in a leadership contest, increasing his share of the vote to 61.8 per cent. The hard-left parliamentarian and long-time back bencher-turned party leader defeated Owen Smith who took 193,229 votes from
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour Party announces the winner of its leadership contest Saturday — but whoever triumphs, the party’s troubles are far from over. Left-wing incumbent Jeremy Corbyn is strongly favored to defeat challenger Owen Smith and retain leadership
(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
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.
The UKIP conference this year is about much more than simply announcing a new leader and getting together; it’s existential, about deciding what an anti-EU party is to do after victoriously pulling the UK out of the EU.
(AFP) – The embattled leader of Britain’s Labour party could lose his parliamentary seat in a shake-up set to reduce the number of lawmakers, according to plans unveiled on Tuesday. The possible impact on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s political career
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.
A claim that a traditional Hebrew greeting for Passover was removed from a message by UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn because of the fear it might look “Zionist” has been rejected by the party.
Jeremy Corbyn has called for an end to after-work drinks, claiming the practice discriminates against women.
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has defended receiving £20,000 for appearances on the Iranian state broadcaster on the basis that the payment “wasn’t an enormous amount”.
(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.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party, already in the throes of a bitterly divisive leadership contest after June’s Brexit vote, is facing more turmoil as a row over security jeopardises the staging of its annual conference. One of Labour’s
The Board of Deputies of British Jews emphasized its strong opposition to boycotts, in response to Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s reiteration of his support for boycotting Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan was booed by supporters of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn last night after declaring his support for leadership rival Owen Smith. Mr Corbyn held a rally of thousands of supporters in north London as he battles to
(AFP) – Voting will begin Monday to decide if veteran leftist Jeremy Corbyn will remain leader of Britain’s Labour party, with an ill-tempered campaign deepening divisions that threaten the party’s future. Ballots and online voting forms were due to be
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.
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn will share a speaking platform with a blogger who once called for a Jewish journalist in Israel to have his throat cut.
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.
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has an inner circle that can only be compared to Nazi stormtroopers, a Jewish party donor said on Sunday.
Labour MPs and feminist organisations have called on Theresa May to suspend Philip Davies after it emerged the Tory MP gave a speech pointing out how the UK justice system favours women. Jeremy Corbyn is among the voices demanding Mr Davies
(Reuters) – Nearly 76 years to the day since Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico with an ice-pick on Josef Stalin’s orders, the Russian revolutionary has returned to haunt Britain’s opposition Labour Party in the turmoil sparked by the Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn, the embattled leader of the opposition UK Labour Party, has been accused of accepting campaign funds from a group with links to the Hamas terrorist organisation.
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.
TEL AVIV – There have been “clear incidents of anti-Semitism” at the Oxford University Labour Club, a leaked investigative report revealed, but said the phenomenon did not extend to “institutional anti-Semitism.”
(Reuters) – Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Thursday the result of last month’s vote to leave the European Union should be respected, putting him at odds with the lawmaker who is challenging him for his job. Labour has
The Conservatives have opened up an 11-point lead in the first opinion poll published since Theresa May became Prime Minister and installed a government focused on Brexit. A YouGov poll puts the Conservatives up by a massive 10 points to
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
Council of Europe Ambassador and Amnesty International representative Bianca Jagger has tweeted out a web link attacking critics of embattled Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for being black or Jewish. The link, which directs to a Neo-Nazi website called Metapedia,