The UK looks set for a December general election after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced his party was ready to fight the “most radical campaign ever”. Mr Corbyn said his condition of taking a no-deal Brexit off the table had now been met after the EU agreed to extend the …
LONDON — He is the bane of bankers, a bearded, teetotaling socialist often derided in the British press and in Parliament for his efforts to suppress dissent inside the Labour Party and his radical plans to remake the British economy. But in the unmitigated chaos of Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, the …
LONDON (Reuters) – The opposition Labour Party said on Thursday it would trigger an emergency debate in parliament next week to try to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without a withdrawal deal. More than three years after the country voted in a referendum …
Jeremy Corbyn has urged the UK’s most senior civil servant to intervene to prevent a no-deal Brexit happening during a general election campaign. The Labour leader is concerned that the UK could leave the EU on 31 October, while a campaign is ongoing and before a new government is elected. …
The new prime minister is a shape-shifter. Is he going to play the ideologue, or the opportunist? After eighteen years in political office, and a lifetime with his eyes on the prize, Boris Johnson has become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Defeating Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in the …
Jeremy Corbyn has challenged the next Tory leader to hold another referendum before taking Britain out of the EU, saying Labour will campaign for Remain. Mr Corbyn says the party will take this position to stop “no deal or a damaging Tory Brexit”. But he does not say what he …
Theresa May has called for Jeremy Corbyn to “put their differences aside” and agree a Brexit deal. The UK was supposed to leave the EU on 29 March – but the deadline was delayed until 31 October, after MPs rejected Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement three times. Mrs May is now …
Major fumbles have left British leftists ill-equipped to help guide their country. Three years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and two weeks after it was supposed to have left, Prime Minister Theresa May returned to Europe this week, hat in hand, to ask for a …
The leader of the Labour Party not only has failed to confront anti-Semitism, but seems unable to acknowledge it as a problem. It may have been at the Sternberg Center, where a large overflow marquee housed my London congregation on the High Holidays. There was an abandoned trailer in the …
Labour has said it is prepared to back another EU referendum to prevent a “damaging Tory Brexit”. Jeremy Corbyn has told Labour MPs the party will move to back another vote if their own proposed Brexit deal is rejected on Wednesday. Labour’s Emily Thornberry said if the parliamentary process ended …
But more has to happen before this can count as a restructuring of British politics AFTER MONTHS of rumours and false starts, the Labour split has finally come. Seven MPs—Luciana Berger, Chuka Umunna, Gavin Shuker, Anne Coffey, Chris Leslie, Mike Gapes and Angela Smith—quit the party this morning. It has …
Rebel Labour MPs are threatening to quit and form their own party amid growing disaffection with Jeremy Corbyn as a new opinion poll puts the Tories seven points ahead. At least six members of the Opposition have been drawing up plans to resign the Labour whip and form a new …