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An adviser on tactical voting said to have helped swing the Canadian elections for the left wing Liberal Party is advising Gina Miller’s campaign to elect candidates with an “open mind” on Brexit. The British Guiana-born financier’s Best for Britain

Labour has sacked a general election candidate who campaigns for workers’ rights after allegations the prospective MP for a safe Conservative seat had ‘liked’ a series of ‘Islamophobic’ posts on Twitter over the years.

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.

MPs have demanded that tech firms be fined tens of millions of pounds for failing to remove ‘hateful’ material from their websites.

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.

A Labour supporting pro-Brexit group has claimed the party could deny the Conservatives a majority at the next election if it is quick to adopt a “clean” Brexit policy.

The prime minister’s decision to hold a snap election has given her party a four-point boost in the polls, delivering the Conservatives a massive 24 point lead over their closest rivals, the Labour Party.

Senior Labour Party figures have used early election trail appearances to set out an anti-establishment general election campaign, hoping to capture some of the success of other populist campaigns.

Politicians in Wales are campaigning to transform the country into the world’s first “nation of sanctuary” for “refugees and asylum” seekers, with the support of the regional government.

The European Parliament has introduced new rules which could see populist speeches wiped from the system without citizens ever knowing that they had taken place. The unprecedented move, which gives the president the power to pull the plug on speakers deemed

Article 50 will be invoked on March 9 at a summit of European leaders – but only if the Bill to invoke it can be steered through both Houses of Parliament without incident.

A Commons proposal spearheaded by Labour rebels including Heidi Alexander aims to derail the Brexit process by throwing out the Government’s Article 50 bill, as introduced to the house this week. Although the motion only has 18 known backers presently,

The Washington Post newspaper has claimed that “British lawmakers” are calling Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to the United States “embarrassing”, propping up their headline with a quote from the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament Vince Cable

The government has published its Bill to trigger Article 50 and leave the European Union (EU), in line with a ruling by the Supreme Court this week.

A group of cross-party MPs is plotting to make Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) as ‘soft’ as possible and keep the UK in the single market. Labour, Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Green party MPs have written to Theresa

A Labour MP has used Parliamentary privilege to accuse Stephen K. Bannon, who has taken a leave of absence as Breitbart’s Executive Chairman, of anti-Semitism and misogyny. While her claims are unsubstantiated, the same can not be said for challenges against her own party, which has been shown to have long-standing problems with discrimination.

A senior lawmaker from Britain’s opposition Labour Party and critic of its leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Friday he would resign from parliament to take up the role of Director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.

Britain should move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and have the Queen open the new premises in a show of solidarity with the Jewish state, senior Conservative Michael Gove has said.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has rallied behind his domestic violence spokeswoman, Sarah Champion, after she admitted spending a night in a police cell for beating her husband with a framed painting.

A Labour councillor in Scotland has been suspended after allegedly referring to LGBT people as “deviants”. Tom McAughtrie, who has served as a councillor in the Labour party for more than 30 years in Dumfries and Galloway, has been placed

Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn has seen off his opponent in a leadership contest, increasing his share of the vote to 61.8 per cent. The hard-left parliamentarian and long-time back bencher-turned party leader defeated Owen Smith who took 193,229 votes from

Senior Labour MEP Claude Moraes has said European nations must take many more migrants, and urged the EU to enact tough legislation to ensure their distribution throughout the bloc.

LONDON (Reuters) – Former British prime minister Tony Blair, who built a multi-million pound business network advising multi-national corporations and governments after leaving office in 2007, said on Tuesday he was planning to close his commercial ventures and concentrate on not-for-profit activities.

A Labour shadow minister has sought to pin the blame for the move by tv cooking competition The Great British Bake Off from BBC to Channel 4 on the Conservatives, insisting that the Corporation lost the program because of government

LONDON (AFP) – One year after his election, Jeremy Corbyn is leading the most unpopular opposition Labour party in British history, according to an analysis of polls published Monday.

Labour’s shadow Foreign Minister has accused a presenter on Sky News of “sexism” after he asked, and she failed, to name the French Foreign Minister and the South Korean president.

Jeremy Corbyn has called for an end to after-work drinks, claiming the practice discriminates against women.

Labour must take a strong pro-immigration stance and promote “tolerance and diversity” even if it means losing voters, Owen Smith has said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party, already in the throes of a bitterly divisive leadership contest after June’s Brexit vote, is facing more turmoil as a row over security jeopardises the staging of its annual conference. One of Labour’s

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.

Emerson College Professor Gregory Payne tells Breitbart News that after witnessing the actual Bradley Effect while working on that campaign, he sees the same phenomenon in the 2016 with voters reluctant to tell pollsters they support GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party has refused to say whether he would defend a NATO ally if one was invaded by Russia.

Labour MPs and feminist organisations have called on Theresa May to suspend Philip Davies after it emerged the Tory MP gave a speech pointing out how the UK justice system favours women. Jeremy Corbyn is among the voices demanding Mr Davies

(Reuters) – Nearly 76 years to the day since Leon Trotsky was murdered in Mexico with an ice-pick on Josef Stalin’s orders, the Russian revolutionary has returned to haunt Britain’s opposition Labour Party in the turmoil sparked by the Brexit

The latest charity figures reveal the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK rose by 11 per cent in the first six months of this year with London reporting three-quarters of all recorded attacks.