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Labour MP Rachael Maskell has joined party leadership hopeful Clive Lewis to defy Jeremy Corbyn by endorsing a second referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union.

UKIP have slipped to just four per cent in the latest opinion poll ahead of the June 8 election, with Conservatives garnering almost twice as much voter support as the Labour Party.

The Labour Party has thrown its position on Brexit into further confusion after reneging on a pledge to support ending Free Movement within hours of having made it.

Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) that the opposition Labour Party are a spent force north of the border. She also called on voters to back her party to “reinforce” her mandate for a second referendum on leaving the United Kingdom.

Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has fuelled speculation he is ready to work with the Lib Dems to fight Brexit in the general election, urging voters to back any candidate opposing leaving the European Union (EU).

A senior Labour MP vying to be the first elected mayor of Greater Manchester has shared a platform with a Muslim pressure group accused of being led by “extremists”, after implying Muslims should not work with police.

Politically correct councillors in Harlow, Essex, have been mocked for emulating “student union politics” by erasing any reference to gender from official business.

LONDON (AFP) – Britain’s main opposition Labour Party was in turmoil Thursday just weeks before local elections, after deciding not to expel a senior party member who made comments about Adolf Hitler and Zionism.

A Labour councillor has been suspended from the local party after throwing a Nazi salute towards UKIP and Conservative politicians.

Paul Nuttall has insisted he will not stand down as UKIP’s leader after reducing Labour’s majority in the Stoke-on-Trent by-election, promising to target more seats in the future.

The Copeland by-election has been won by the Conservative party, beating Labour by over 2,100 votes. The Conservative’s Trudy Harrison took 13,748. Labour took 11,601 votes. Other parties included the Liberal Democrats on 2,252, and UKIP on 2,025. The race

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has slammed the “disgraceful” tactics used by Labour supporters and ‘anti-fascists’ in the hotly contested Stoke-on-Trent by-election, revealing what he called the “nasty side of the left”.

Labour are now the third most popular party amongst lower-income, working-class voters, with UKIP overtaking the party amongst this group for the first time in a national General Election poll.

Labour’s candidate in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election has told UKIP’s leader and candidate for the seat to stop speaking up for Brexit and “sod off back to where he came from”.

The shadow business secretary, tipped to be Labour’s next leader, has said the party is facing a “rout” in many working-class seats where they are “hanging on by the fingernails to keep UKIP at bay”.

LONDON (AFP) – The passage of a Brexit bill through parliament is reopening deep divisions among lawmakers in Britain’s opposition Labour party, as they struggle to reconcile their pro-European views with voter concerns over immigration.

The shadow chancellor has praised “dignified” MPs who defied a three-line whip to vote against triggering Brexit, revealing that twelve front bench members of the opposition may not be fired for defying the party line.

The Labour Party is set to be rocked by a serious rebellion, following two frontbench resignations in protest against leader Jeremy Corbyn imposing a three-line whip to make MPs vote for an Article 50 bill.

Labour has selected its candidate to stand in the Stoke-on-Trent by-election: A man who has ridiculed Brexit as a “pile of sh*t” and described the party’s leader as an “IRA supporting friend of Hamas career politician”.

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing a revolt by a quarter of his MPs on the vote to trigger Article 50 and begin the Brexit process. Leading figures including former leadership contender Owen Smith are among those who have already

A poll has revealed UKIP is pulling ahead in the race to win the Stoke-on-Trent by-election, looking set to take the seat from Labour for the first time since the 1950s and land their leader in Parliament.

The Supreme Court’s ruling that Parliament must be consulted on triggering Article 50 has prompted an avalanche of comment as the main political players vie to steer the process to their advantage. In the Commons, the minister for exiting the

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has confirmed he will stand in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election, promising to take up key Labour issues such as fighting for higher wages, higher NHS spending and opposing the ‘bedroom tax’.

Labour’s Shadow Secretary of Education has said a plan to give British children priority access to the best school places, before illegal migrants, is “disgusting” and anyone who supports the idea is against “British values”.

For some years now, one of the worst things on Twitter has been @harryslaststand. It purports to be the account of a 93-year old World War II veteran called Harry Leslie Smith who comments on the day’s news from a bitter, angry, hard-left-wing perspective.

Labour MPs must take voters concerns on immigration and Brexit seriously or risk losing their seats to the UK Independence Party, former shadow minister Dan Jarvis has warned.

Men should be banned from running for Parliamentary constituencies on behalf of the Labour Party until there are an equal number of male and female Labour politicians, a Labour MP has said.

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”.

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

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

Sadiq Khan has crossed the pond, carrying a message of “building bridges rather than walls” – a clear reciprocation for Obama’s “back of the queue” visit to London. And in a lurid show of support for Hillary Clinton’s collapsing presidential campaign, he goaded Trump on his own turf.

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.

(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.

A leadership candidate for Britain’s opposition Labour party, Owen Smith, said on Wednesday he would try to get parliament to block talks on leaving the European Union unless the government promises a second referendum or election.