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Trevor Phillips, a veteran anti-racism campaigner, accused the Labour Party of “shutting down debate” after he was expelled from the party over allegedly Islamophobic statements concerning Pakistani grooming gangs.

The ‘continuity Corbyn’ candidate, Rebecca Long-Bailey, has fallen to last place in the Labour Party leadership race, spelling trouble for the socialist wing of the party.

A contender to replace ageing socialist Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the Labour Party concluded his campaign by deriding over half of Britain’s electorate, saying the Brexit campaign had “racism at its core”.

The socialist left in Europe has suffered a bruising year, leaving the Independent to review a decade of decline while populist parties rise.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s historic conservative victory in this week’s U.K. national election could spell trouble for radical leftist Democrat candidates like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), moderate Democrats warn.

The comprehensive election defeat of Britain’s left-wing Labour Party has been hailed in Israel as a “milestone in the fight against hatred” after its leadership was accused of years of tepid inaction against antisemitism in its ranks.

The former Labour Party mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, said that Boris Johnson’s predicted landslide victory spells “the end” for Jeremy Corbyn, blaming the loss on the “Jewish vote”.

Leaked audio of Jonathan Ashworth, the Labour Party’s Shadow Health Minister, records him saying that Jeremy Corbyn is a security risk.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has backed an electoral intervention by Britain’s chief rabbi by saying the country should be alert to the unease felt by many Jews at the prospect of a left-wing Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn.

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have polled 14 points clear of their nearest rivals, the increasingly hard-left Labour party of Jeremy Corbyn, his best-projected result since the election was called in October. 

A new report from ONS shows that the number of non-EU born foreign workers has climbed to an all-time high in the United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom is in day one of a short, 43-day snap general election campaign and while the first polls published give Boris Johnson’s Conservatives a leading position, the figures may not be enough to reshape Parliament for Brexit.

Britain’s members of Parliament have voted for the nation to have a snap general election, its third in less than five years, on December 12th. The vote on Tuesday night was the fourth opportunity put before Parliament to approve a snap

Outspoken veteran Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge said she is “disappointed” to be facing a party reselection contest in her east London constituency.

Britain’s opposition parties say they won’t support Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call for an election when it comes to a vote next week.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to call a snap general election on Wednesday if Parliament votes to ban the United Kingdom from fully leaving the European Union, but the same Parliament now has the right to block that election, saving their own jobs while leaving British political life in a damaging state of limbo.

Antisemitic incidents have spiked across the UK over the first six month of this year,  a report released Thursday revealed.

TEL AVIV – A Likud minister close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of Jew-hatred amid continuing probes into the British opposition party over its failure to deal with antisemitism. 

A BBC report that outlined systemic antisemitism within the left-wing UK Labour Party has been greeted with dismay by party members and local Jewish leaders alike.

TEL AVIV — Former UK prime minister Tony Blair on a visit to Israel said current Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite who isn’t aware he is one. 

Secret Jewish agents operating on behalf of the Israeli Embassy in London are orchestrating the antisemitism crisis engulfing UK Labour, according to Peter Willsman, a leader of the left-wing party’s governing National Executive Committee.

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has privately conceded evidence of anti-Semitism within his left wing party was “mislaid or ignored”, leaked recordings suggest.

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone told a meeting of hard-left Labour Party activists “lies and smears” are being used to destroy leader Jeremy Corbyn.

British police have made three arrests after a leaked dossier on anti-Semitism within the Labour Party was leaked to a radio station, who passed the files onto law enforcement.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday lashed the hard-left UK Labour Party’s efforts to tackle antisemitism in its ranks as a “national disgrace” in an unusually harsh appraisal of the internal politics of an ally.

Labour councils have been removing embedded immigration officers amidst pressure from open borders campaigners, who say officials are putting illegal migrants off accessing taxpayer-funded welfare.

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn released a video on Thursday in which he claimed he was “utterly determined to root out anti-Semitism from our party and our society.”

Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party has been targeted as a key driver behind a record number of attacks on Jewish people across the UK in 2018.

Half of all knife crime in London is carried out by people aged 19 and under, and three quarters of offenders are from minority ethnic groups, the latest figures show.

The UK Labour Party has suspended a senior official over social media posts accusing Jews of secretly orchestrating global conflicts and promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories.

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn says his party will try to stop Britain leaving the European Union without an agreement if Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal is rejected by Parliament.

British police have launched a criminal investigation into allegations of anti-Semitic hate crimes within the opposition Labour Party.

The number of British Jews leaving the UK and seeking a new life in Israel has risen seven percent on last year’s figures, mirroring a sharp increase in Russian Jews also fleeing Europe.

An anti-Israel Palestinian activist, who was suspended by the Labour Party over anti-Semitism allegations, was chosen to represent the UK on an official government trade mission to SE Asia.

UK Conservative Dominic Raab called out the opposition Labour Party’s entrenched anti-Semitism on Monday by using the example of his own father’s escape from the Holocaust and the incipient anti-Jewish hatred generated by Nazism.

A newspaper handed out at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool carries a front page story likening the Jewish state of Israel to Nazi Germany.