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Labour's Zarah Sultana apologises after saying she would 'celebrate' deaths of Tony Blair 

Labour MP Zarah Sultana, who is standing for Coventry South, used the 'extremistmuslim' hashtag and said 'try to stop me when the likes of Blair, Netanyahu and Bush die' in 2015.




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Labour leaflet poster boy 'was disciplined for sharing anti-Semitic slurs'

A Labour-backing general election leaflet features a party activist who was disciplined for sharing anti-Semitic material online, it has emerged.




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Labour candidate is forced to apologise for 'extremely distasteful' old Twitter post

In 2012, Peymana Assad, who is standing for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, tweeted: 'Some man I just met thought I was Israeli so I cracked the 10 lost tribes of Israel joke to him and he got gassed.'




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Tom Watson is to make a fresh push for Labour to back a second EU referendum

In a keynote speech to the Centre for European Reform, Mr Watson (pictured) will say Labour's members and its values have always been pro-European.




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Labour Brexit civil war deepens as Tom Watson launches campaign to keep the UK in the European Union

Tom Watson has launched a Labour Remain website and is urging activists to put pressure on Mr Corbyn by signing a declaration stating the party must now 'fight, fight and fight again to keep Britain in the EU'.




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Fresh Labour split as second MP says she would 'take No Deal over no Brexit'

Sarah Champion, a Labour MP, said today she would now accept a No Deal Brexit as she suggested it may have been a mistake to vote against Theresa May's deal.




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Labour Brexit divide widens as Diane Abbott tells Today programme she would support Remain over deal

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said today she will be 'personally campaigning for Remain' regardless of whether Labour commits to staying in the EU or not.




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Marxist John McDonnell's second home was revealed this week, exposing Labour's double-standards

LEO MCKINSTRY: The great 19th-century Tory statesman Benjamin Disraeli described his party as 'an organised hypocrisy'. But today that term is better suited to Labour.




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Tom Watson risks deepening Labour's divide over Brexit by calling for a second EU referendum

In a bombshell intervention deepening Labour's civil war over Europe, the deputy leader will today claim the 2016 vote was too long ago to be valid. Tom Watson will call for a second EU referendum.




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Sir Keir Starmer says Labour will give the vote to 16 year-olds at a second Brexit referendum

Labour will give 16 and 17 year-olds the right to vote at a second Brexit referendum, Sir Keir Starmer has suggested as he said eventually the party will campaign to keep the UK in the EU.




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Labour leadership hopefuls Sir Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips clash over Brexit

Two Labour leadership hopefuls clashed over Brexit today as Sir Keir Starmer said the row over the UK leaving had been settled but Jess Phillips suggested she could campaign to rejoin the EU.




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DOMINIC SANDBROOK imagines the fallout of Labour's first weeks in power

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Exactly 100 days since Jeremy Corbyn became Prime Minister, his Momentum fan club have sent red roses to mark the occasion.




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Boris Johnson needs 50 Labour seats to offset SNP and Lib Dem losses

Boris Johnson will seek to rally his troops for the pre-Christmas showdown by attacking Jeremy Corbyn at what promises to be a brutal PMQs session in the Commons later.




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Conservatives have TEN POINT poll lead over Labour pre-election

Figures from poll trackers which map the various opinion poll firms suggest the Conservatives are on 35 per cent, with Jeremy Corbyn on 25 per cent and the Lib Dems on 18 per cent.




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Conservatives' poll lead dips but they're still ahead of Labour

Some 36 per cent of voters have swung behind the Prime Minister, according to a YouGov survey conducted as the official starting gun was fired on the general election campaign.




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Tory candidate apologises to Sikh Labour rival for accusing him of 'talking through his turban'

Phillip Dunne, who has been the MP for Ludlow in Shropshire since 2005, faced calls to be binned by the Tory party after making the 'extremely insulting' jibe to Kuldip Sahota last night.




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Ex-Labour Brexiter MP Gisela Stuart urges people to vote Tory

Former Labour MP Gisela Stuart savaged Jeremy Corbyn 's Brexit plan today as she stood alongside Boris Johnson and urged Leave voters to back the Tories at the general election.




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Labour stalls in polls as Conservatives lead by 12 points

Boris Johnson and the Tories hold a 12 point poll lead over Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party with the general election now just nine days away.




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Conservatives lead Labour by 10 points a WEEK before election

Boris Johnson and the Tories have a 10 point poll lead over Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party with the general election now just one week away.




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Labour's Jon Ashworth taped saying voters 'can't stand Corbyn'

Jeremy Corbyn has desperately tried to downplay damaging remarks made about him by shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth.




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Pre-election poll shows Labour gains but Tory majority likely

A survey conducted by Opinium between December 10-11 puts the Tories on 45 per cent overall, down one point, while Labour is up two points to 33 per cent.




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Conservatives win Workington with 9.7% swing from Labour

The Conservatives have taken the Workington seat from a Labour in a huge swing, managing to overturn a 3,000 majority to triumph by a stunning 4,000 votes. 




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Labour's Dennis Skinner defeated by the Tories on 11.5% swing

The Derbyshire constituency has been Labour since its inception in the 1950s, but the Conservatives last night trounced Mr Skinner to return a 5,299 majority.




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Furious Labour MPs turn on Jeremy Corbyn saying 'hardline socialist' leader responsible for defeat

The bitter recrimination between Mr Corbyn' hard-Left supporters and more moderate factions began as soon as the exit polls last night accurately predicted the party's brutal pummelling




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Both Tory and Labour rebel MPs lose their Commons seats

Voters last night were merciless in expelling Tory rebels and Labour carpetbaggers including Dominic Grieve, David Gauke, Chukku Umunna and Anna Soubry.




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Labour and Tory MPs sworn in at Commons carrying babies

Labour MP Stella Creasy and Tory MP Kemi Badenoch were both sworn in while carrying their newborn daughters yesterday.




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2019 Election map shows Tory-Labour vote is split by old-young

The 'youthquake' Labour needed, but never materialised, would have won them 341 more seats than the 203 they took in December, analysis by Election Maps UK has found.




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Labour attack Boris Johnson over appearance despite Jeremy Corbyn's own battles over unkempt look

The Labour Party risked ridicule today after it attacked Boris Johnson for being 'scruffy' despite Jeremy Corbyn's own history of being criticised over his own appearance.




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Treasury makes routine costing of Labour's pledges but civil service BLOCKS publication of report 

Sajid Javid was locked in a furious row with the head of the civil service last night after he blocked plans to publish official costings for Labour's 'eye-watering' election pledges.




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Up to 100 mourners including Labour MP ignore coronavirus lockdown

Labour MP Tahir Ali was one of 100 mourners attending a funeral of a constituent in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham despite the ongoing coronavirus Covid-19 lockdown.




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Life and Birth viewers are left in awe of mother who 'pushed like a demon' through a 56-hour labour

First time mother Roo, a yoga teacher, was filmed in the final hours of her 56-hour labour at Birmingham Women's Hospital for last night's episode of BBC1's Life and Death.




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Woman whose flight was diverted after going into labour 10 weeks early is back in UK with son

Lauren McLean gave birth to Oscar in the most traumatic circumstances at the beginning of March and her ordeal only ended when they flew back home to Birmingham at the end of April.




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Senior Labour MPs slam Corbyn as he mulls agreeing to election BEFORE October 31 Brexit deadline

Despite having called for an election repeatedly over the past two years, Labour has been in chaos over whether to back Boris Johnson's request for a vote on October 15.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Suspended Labour peer Lord Lea of Crondall's four-letter shame 

ANDREW PIERCE: The Labour Party suspended Lord Lea of Crondall last week after the House of Lords' standards watchdog found he sexually harassed two women working in Parliament.




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ANDREW PIERCE: Boris Johnson's little brother Labour's new leader

ANDREW PIERCE: Social media posts can be ever so revealing. Who is the unlikeliest fan of ­Labour's new leader Sir Keir Starmer?




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Are 90 per cent of giraffes gay? Labour MP Dawn Butler sparked a storm with her claim

During an alarmingly meandering and sweary after-dinner speech for online LGBT newspaper PinkNews earlier this month, Dawn Butler declared that almost all giraffes were gay.




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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Labour's mask slips on 'Day of Rage'

If Corbyn truly believed in democracy, he’d roundly condemn today’s ‘Day of Rage’, organised by the storm troops of the hard Left to bring London to a halt and help overthrow the Government.




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Sir Keir Starmer's new policy chief is pro-Brexit and a far cry from Jeremy Corbyn's Labour 

As well as believing that leaving the EU is an 'opportunity' for Britain, Claire Ainsley is an ardent pro-family campaigner.




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Labour MP deletes tweet criticising Boris Johnson for attending the birth of his son

Ruth Cadbury, 60, tweeted minutes after the birth was announced this morning, saying: 'It appears Boris Johnson has just found yet another excuse to miss PMQs.' She later deleted it.




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ALEX BRUMMER: Labour's recipe for fiscal mayhem shows they have not learned the lessons of the 1970s

Labour promises, such as free broadband and a pensions bailout for women born in the Fifties would eviscerate public finances, destroy our credit rating and lead to a run on the pound.




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Youngest Labour MP is SACKED by care home she returned to work at during coronavirus crisis

Labour MP Nadia Whittome, who won her seat for Nottingham East in December, returned to a home in Nottinghamshire a month ago, pledging to help out in her former role amid the Covid-19 crisis.




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Autumn Statement: Mansion tax snub for Clegg - Labour frontbenchers mock Clegg and Cable as Osborne humiliates Lib Dems

Labour frontbenchers mocked Nick Clegg, pictured, and his Lib Dem colleagues as George Osborne dashed their hopes of introducing a 'mansion tax' in his Autumn Statement.




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Autumn Statement: Labour refuses to back 1% cap on benefits rises but minister insists the era of the 'generous' welfare state is over

Pensions minister Steve Webb (pictured) warned the state of the public finances meant 'difficult decisions' had to be taken, and challenged Labour to back them.




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'Bungling Balls' has destroyed chances of leading Labour after lacklustre response to Osborne's Autumn statement, claims fellow opposition MP

Bassetlaw MP John Mann said the Shadow Chancellor’s response to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement had damaged Mr Balls’s leadership prospects – and made Mr Miliband’s position secure.




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Labour MPs busy with their PHONES as Shadow Chancellor rails at Autumn Statement

As John McDonnell stood up for his big moment to respond to the Chancellor's spending plans, Labour's MPs were much more interested in their mobile phones than his rambling speech.




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Labour hits out at Philip Hammond's failure to pledge money for services

Social care for older people is the responsibility of local councils across Britain, and its leaders say that savage cuts have already had to be made due to lower funding from Whitehall.




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John McDonnell insists Labour MPs WERE listening to his Autumn Statement response

John McDonnell insisted today that Labour MPs were listening to his response to the Autumn Statement yesterday despite most of them being seen busy on their mobile phones.




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Jordan Ablett reveals she induced her labour so her mother could meet her son

Jordan Ablett and her AFL superstar Gary Jr welcomed their first child, a son named Levi, last year.




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England bowlers labour on final day of warm-up against New Zealand XI

LAWRENCE BOOTH IN WHANGAREI: Chris Woakes intends to make himself undroppable as England weigh up whether to pick him or Sam Curran at No 8 in next week's first Test against New Zealand.




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Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy and Piers Morgan clash over trans rights

Lisa Nandy and Piers Morgan engaged in an explosive row over transgender rights today as the Labour leadership hopeful was accused of failing to give 'straight answers'.