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Between 100 and 150 Green Party election candidates have been prevented from joining Britain’s Labour Party as it struggles to tackle infiltration by far-left activists. Labour insiders are increasingly worried that thousands of hard-left supporters may have joined in the

The Labour Party should not have voted for Britain to recognise the Palestinian state said a leadership candidate during election hustings organised by Labour Friends of Israel and the Jewish Chronicle. Referring to last year’s Parliamentary vote in which Labour whipped its MPs to in

Labour leadership favourite Andy Burnham has been attempting to sell himself as a humble man of the people to the Labour faithful. He’s from Liverpool, and is not a member of the “the metropolitan elite,” and “[has] never been,” he

A Labour Member of Parliament has said that British Muslims shouldn’t have to apologise for the young people from their communities who go off to join ISIS. Bolton MP Yasmin Querishi drew a comparison with the Charleston shooting last week, saying that,

Liz Kendall – the Blairite Labour leadership candidate – has uttered a Lefty blasphemy: she would support under-performing white working class school kids. Her speech on the weekend focused on education and she hit plenty of heart-warming PC platitudes and empty buzzwords.

A large-scale brawl broke out today at a Labour Party-linked, Muslim community centre in Leeds in the northern of England. The video (below), caught on a mobile phone before being uploaded to Facebook, depicted a violent scuffle between two warring sides

Labour’s acting leader Harriet Harman has confirmed the party will now support an EU referendum by the end of 2017. She told the Sunday Times the reverse in position came after Labour “reflected on the conversations we had on doorsteps” during the

Labour’s former council leader in Thanet, Iris Johnston, has been caught on camera allegedly ‘helping’ a member of the public to cast their ballot during last Thursday’s election. The votes for Thanet District Council took place on the same day as

Multi-millionaire Welsh singer Charlotte Church has taken to the streets of Cardiff to protest the new democratically elected Conservative government, who she described as “the bogey men”. Church, worth between £11 and £25 million thanks to a lucrative career singing

The future career of Margaret Hodge, the prominent Labour Party politician and parliamentary candidate for Barking in next week’s election, is today uncertain as critics accuse her of “hypocrisy” over allegations relating to her personal tax affairs published in The

According to Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck, “next to bombing, rent control is the most effective way to destroy a city.” He might have been talking about London in 2015. Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposed cap on rents isn’t just a

On the first occasion when Anthony Lynton Blair intruded upon my consciousness,  around 1994, it occurred to me I had seen pleasanter objects lying under lampposts during an epidemic of canine dysentery. My subsequent impressions were less favourable. You could

“Literally we would not know what we were voting for if we were going to vote for Labour.” That is the damning verdict of Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, on Ed Miliband’s manifesto launch yesterday. It

Tony Blair, the disgraced former prime minister and possible war criminal, believes an EU referendum would be “dangerous” for Britain. He has come out strongly backing Ed Miliband on ruling out an In/Out referendum in the next term of Parliament. Blair was wrong about many things; he was an advocate

Georges Sorel, the French philosopher, believed that in politics ‘myths’ can often be more important than reality. If the people could be stirred by emotive social and political illusions, regardless of their basis in reality, Sorel argued, this was ultimately

Labour candidates who received campaign donations from former Prime Minister Tony Blair have been urged to return the “blood money”. Mr Blair is keen to forge links with a Labour Party that has turned its back on him in recent

Labour have posted voters a spoof bill for their healthcare under UKIP. The leaflet was posted on Facebook by local UKIP MEP Bill Etheridge and features a series of prices for treatments that run into thousands of pounds. It claims the

Three quarters of Labour candidates at the General Election are against renewing the Trident nuclear deterrent, according to a new survey by the Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament. Candidates were surveyed online about the submarine-based defence system. Labour were quick to

The knives are out for Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, who has been left vulnerable after a row with his leader Ed Miliband over how to fund higher education. A shadow cabinet member has said that, if Labour win the

United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage will cross the pond at the end of February to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Two Labour donors have waded into the ongoing conflict between the Labour party and the business community, criticising Labour leader Ed Miliband for his “unnecessary” assault on commercial enterprise, and warning that the stock market will tumble if Labour win the general

A group of 15 Labour MPs have released a statement calling on Labour leader Ed Miliband to lurch left. Following the electoral success of anti-austerity party Syriza in Greece over the weekend, the hard left MPs are demanding an end to

The Labour Party in Scotland has pledged to employ a thousand more nurses than the current nationalist government, which will be paid for by the English. The party plans to use the proceeds of the proposed Mansion Tax – which

A couple of years ago, at a drinks reception held in his office in parliament, Ed Miliband plucked up the courage to walk over to the group of journalists from those publications less likely to endorse him as their choice

Ed Miliband has used his first major speech of 2015 to say he will “not join those who cynically offer exit as a realistic plan for our future or the future of Britain’s working families.” He told an audience in

A senior Labour politician and London mayoral hopeful has given voice to fears that anti-Semitism could surge in the run up to the general elections this coming May. David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, has also expressed concern that London could