This exit poll portends total rejection of these amoral Tories – and incredible vindication for Labour | Hugh Muir
Gradually, and then suddenly. Ernest Hemingway famously described his characters’ bankruptcies.Thus came a brutal end to 14 years of Tory hegemony in Britain. If the exit polls published just after 10pm are even half right, this is more of a punitive blow than a change of government, and a well-deserved retribution: Keir Starmer and his […]
Labour Party projected landslide victory in UK elections
Kier Starmer is projected to win the race for Britain’s prime minister in what is looking to be a landslide victory for the Labour Party, bringing an end to the 14-year reign of the Conservative Party. Exit polls conducted for the BBC indicated the Labour Party was projected to win roughly 410 of the 650 […]
Labour Looks to Use Inheritance Tax to ‘Redistribute’ Wealth
A Labour government in power could enforce inheritance tax to “redistribute” wealth, a leaked recording of a shadow frontbencher has suggested. Darren Jones, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, told the public conference that money from punitive taxation should be used to tackle “generational inequality”. The leaked recording includes: report By The Daily Telegraph“There are […]
Neil Kinnock warns Labour to heed nationalist threat posed by Nigel Farage | General election 2024
Amid growing concern within the Labour Party that Reform UK could pose a long-term threat to Labour as well as the Conservatives, Neil Kinnock has warned the party not to ignore the nationalist threat posed by Nigel Farage. The former Labour leader told the Guardian that Labour wanted to launch an attack on Farage’s party […]
Returning to Leigh: can Labour rebuild the red wall? – podcast | News
Leigh in Greater Manchester was once a Labour stronghold – a former mining and manufacturing town, and once Andy Burnham’s constituency – but in 2019 the town voted for Boris Johnson and the constituency disappeared. Helen Pidd As the Guardian’s northern editor at the time, she was a frequent visitor to the town, and in […]
Labour Would Create ‘Office of Net Zero’ to Push Green Agenda: Report
The left-wing Labour Party will reportedly set up a new bureaucracy to push through a “net zero” environmental policy if it wins the July 4 general election. In the fierce race to eliminate carbon emissions in the UK, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s transition team will seek to set up a “net zero office” to […]
Labour Party Looks to Push Transgender Ideology in Schools
A left-wing Labour party might consider repealing government guidance that requires schools to teach children that there are only two biological sexes, but given the Conservative government’s failure to turn the policy into law this guidance could easily be overturned. Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson Said If Labour is elected, as is widely expected, it […]
J.K. Rowling Says Left-Wing Labour Party ‘Abandoned Women’
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has said the left-wing Labour party has “abandoned” women to appease an awakening base on transgender issues. Rowling, a successful author and feminist voice and once a darling of the liberal left, said she hopes the Conservative Party loses the July 4 general election but suggested she could not support […]
Labour’s NHS and social care plans will save money, says Angela Rayner | Labour
Angela Rayner said Labour’s NHS and social care plan would save money “without worrying about being cost neutral”. The party’s plans for funding the health service have been criticised by some think tanks for falling “far short” of what is needed to improve it. Trade unions and social care bosses say the sector is “broken” […]
Labour under pressure to be more radical about reforming private renting | Housing
Although Labour has vowed to end no-fault evictions, ban bidding wars and impose deadlines for removing potentially deadly mould, it is pressing for more radical reforms to private renting amid fears that landlords will find new ways to evict tenants. Campaigning against the “rip-off private rented sector”, Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow chancellor […]