Labour’s Dawn Butler joins Cameo app to send well-wishes to paying fans 

The MP who will send you a message… for a fee! Labour’s Dawn Butler joins personalised video site to send well-wishes to paying fans Dawn Butler, Labour MP for Brent Central, has joined Cameo video message app Cameo allows celebrities and public figures to charge fans fee for a bespoke clip Ms Butler, 51, advertises … Read more

Labour’s ex-director of governance among 21 suing party for libel over anti-Semitism report leak

Labour’s ex-director of governance is among 21 people suing party for libel over leaked internal report into its handling of anti-Semitism allegations Emilie Oldknow took legal action against party in February to find source of leak  860-page report on Labour’s anti-Semitism complaints was leaked in April 2020  Ms Oldknow and 20 other unnamed individuals filed … Read more

Labour’s ex-director of governance is among 21 people suing party for libel

Labour’s ex-director of governance is among 21 people suing party for libel over leaked internal report into its handling of anti-Semitism allegations Emilie Oldknow took legal action against party in February to find source of leak  860-page report on Labour’s anti-Semitism complaints was leaked in April 2020  Ms Oldknow and 20 other unnamed individuals filed … Read more

Labour’s Mike Hill QUITS as Hartlepool MP to set up a Red Wall by-election

Labour’s Mike Hill QUITS as Hartlepool MP amid sexual harassment allegations to set up a Red Wall by-election that will be a test of Boris Johnson’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 12:32 GMT, 16 March 2021 | Updated: 12:45 GMT, 16 March 2021 Labour’s Mike Hill quit as an MP … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the launch of Labour’s local elections campaign

Treble espressos all round, Giovanni! And while you’re at it, best poke a couple of matchsticks under our eyelids lest we find ourselves toppling into a deep and rigid coma. Sir Keir Starmer launched Labour’s local elections campaign yesterday morning and, ye gods, it was a force-five, chateau-bottled boreathon. To think I could been watching … Read more

Labour’s Jon Ashworth hints he would back nurses STRIKING over pay row

Labour’s Jon Ashworth hints he would back nurses going on STRIKE over ‘insulting’ 1% pay rise as ministers insist Covid economic meltdown means the government cannot afford more Labour’s John Ashworth insisted he supports nurses’ right to strike over pay row Ministers have defended the 1 per cent pay increase proposed for NHS workers Government … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Labour’s false narrative on Serco’s Test and Trace

Serco is not among Britain’s best-loved companies, in spite of the mammoth effort by Rupert Soames to restore its standing. The outsourcer’s reputation was badly scorched in 2019 when it paid £23million to the Serious Fraud Office as part settlement over cheating on its electronic tagging contracts. For all its faults, though, it does not … Read more

Labour’s leader in Scotland Richard Leonard QUITS ahead of Holyrood elections

Labour’s leader in Scotland Richard Leonard QUITS ahead of Holyrood elections in which party was expected to trail THIRD behind SNP and Tories By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 16:10 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 16:28 GMT, 14 January 2021 The Leader of Scottish Labour quit today just months before he was … Read more

Labour’s chief whip demands Jeremy Corbyn ‘unequivocally’ apologises

Labour’s chief whip has demanded that Jeremy Corbyn ‘unequivocally’ apologise for claiming that the scale of anti-Semitism in the party was ‘dramatically overstated for political reasons’. MP Nick Brown said the former-Labour leader caused ‘distress and pain’ to the Jewish community with his response to a damning Equality and Human Rights Commission report into antisemitism in … Read more

Labour’s catalogue of anti-Semitism errors: racism watchdog outlines activity by party members

The Equality and Human Right Commission today outlined numerous examples of anti-Semitism within Labour ranks and the failure of the party leadership to deal with it. The 130-page report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission found ‘significant failings in the way the Labour Party has handled anti-Semitism complaints over the last four years’ with ‘specific … Read more