Greens’ co-leader Carla Denyer unseats Labour in Bristol Central | General election 2024
Green Party co-leader Carla Denier has been elected Member of Parliament for Bristol Central in a major upset for the Labour Party. Mr Denier received 24,539 votes in the newly drawn constituency, comfortably beating Labour candidate and shadow frontbencher Thangam Devonair, who received 14,132 votes, to come in second. Devonaire has represented Bristol West, the […]
Labour leader Keir Starmer likely winner for UK elections, exit polls suggest
Exit polls for the UK general election have predicted that the opposition Labour Party will win a landslide victory after 15 years of Conservative rule. A poll released shortly after voting closed on Thursday showed Labour leader Keir Starmer will be the country’s next prime minister. “Today the future of the UK is on the […]
Jeremy Corbyn re-elected in Islington North after expulsion from Labour | General election 2024
Jeremy Corbyn won the Islington North constituency he has represented since 1983, but this is the first time he has been elected as an independent. The former Leader of the Opposition defeated local Labour MP Praful Nargund, who had been selected as his candidate by the party’s executive committee in May. Corbyn received 24,120 votes […]
Labour Party poised to win UK government after 14 years of Conservative Party rule
Labour is expected to win a landslide victory on Thursday night, bringing to an end 14 years of Conservative rule in Britain. The Labour Party is expected to win 410 seats in the House of Commons, well above the 326 needed for a majority. Nationwide exit poll Poll conducted by Ipsos for BBC, ITV News […]
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 […]