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🌹Do you value LabourList’s coverage? We need your support.🌹. Our independent journalists have been on the ground during this local and by-election campaign, which marks the first key electoral test of Keir Starmer’s government. We’ve been out and about with Labour activists.
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EXCLUSIVE: 83% of Labour members believe their party should back proportional representation, up from 76% two years ago, new polling by YouGov finds:
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NEW: Unite policy conference votes to oppose first-past-the-post and support UK electoral reform in victory for proportional representation campaigners:
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A new campaign group for gay and bisexual rights but not transgender rights has been formed in the Labour Party
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Conservative Party made EHRC "part of the government machine", says Jeremy Corbyn:
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NEW: Keir Starmer calls for a general election and declares that the Labour Party is a "changed" party that is "confident" and "preparing to go into power" while the Tories are "completely exhausted" and "clapped out":
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NEW: 17 Labour MPs – including former leader Jeremy Corbyn – have described the Prime Minister's coronavirus statement as a "thinly veiled declaration of class war":
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NEW: Stella Creasy appointed chair of Labour Movement for Europe, calling on her party to offer a "Labour government unafraid to fight for their future within Europe, not outside it":
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“I’ve read the 11,500 words. We were told there was going to be 14,000. So there’s 2,500 missing. That must be where the politics was.” @johnmcdonnellMP at Socialism Wins in the Ambassador room at #Lab21 today.
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Keir Starmer has been given a boost thanks to YouGov polling that shows he has a net approval rating of +23, which is higher than that of the Prime Minister:
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NEW: Keir Starmer has launched a new Labour Friends of the Forces engagement programme to "open up Labour again to our armed forces":
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91% of Labour members continue to support nationalising mail, rail, energy and water in polling that shows that the membership overwhelmingly still back the 2019 manifesto policies:
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BREAKING: Eleven executive committee members of Islington North’s Constituency Labour Party have publicly vowed to support former MP Jeremy Corbyn’s independent campaign, either quitting or risking expulsion from the party. Read more here: .
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NEW: Ed Miliband urges Tory MPs to support a Labour amendment calling for a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, describing the government's refusal to back Labour's proposal as "shameful":
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EXCLUSIVE: Labour leadership race frontrunner Keir Starmer has vowed to consult party members on electoral reform and include it in a constitutional convention if he becomes the next leader:
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Tracy Brabin becomes first female metro mayor after winning West Yorkshire race:
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EXCLUSIVE: Labour members are overwhelmingly in favour of the radical policies contained in the party's 2017 and 2019 general election manifestos, polling has found:
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NEW: "I can assure you my voice will not be stilled. I'll be out there campaigning for socialism, peace and justice, and I feel sure we'll be doing that together." . @JeremyCorbyn's final email to Labour members:
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Two-thirds of voters who backed Labour last year now say Starmer is the best person to serve as Prime Minister, up from 58% last week
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NEW: 18 Labour peers defy the whip to vote in favour of an amendment banning the authorisation of rape, torture and murder under the so-called 'spycops' bill:
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NEW: Jeremy Corbyn has issued a series of demands – including the introduction of rent deferrals and an increase in statutory sick pay – in a letter to the Prime Minister about the Covid-19 pandemic:
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"I am afraid that, in many respects, this is simply not a Labour government". Former development secretary Clare Short hits out at Keir Starmer's decision to cut foreign aid
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On trans rights, David Lammy says at conference fringe event "dinosaurs exist in our own party" who want to "hoard rights", and there is “always a debate when you’re extending rights to people who have been denied them for so long”. #Lab21.
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BREAKING: Margaret Beckett elected as NEC chair after left stage digital walk-out:
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"It is the first-past-the-post system that turns minority support for the Tories into long-term dominance in parliament. It is a rigged system.". @johnmcdonnellMP on why he is backing proportional representation ahead of Momentum's policy primary:
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NEW: Rebecca Long-Bailey set to announce support for open selections in "democratic revolution" plan:
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NEW: John McDonnell argues that the left of the Labour Party needs to mobilise to "save" an incoming Labour government "from itself", claiming that compassion was "in limited supply" at a meeting of the party's policymaking body over the weekend:
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NEW: Labour's Keir Starmer has found that the new government Brexit bill drops a previous commitment to protect child refugees:
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The @UKLabour mayor of the North of Tyne has announced he is leaving the Labour party, speaking out over @keir_starmer U-turns - @MayorJD:
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NEW: "Labour will open a Sure Start centre in every community and fund 30 hours’ free childcare for all two- to four-year-olds," Corbyn and Rayner announce:
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Labour MP @jessphillips is back on the Labour frontbench, only months after resigning over the Gaza ceasefire vote. She's now a minister in the Home Office. More updates here on appointments.
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WATCH: Zarah Sultana speaks emotionally about Islamophobic abuse received as a Muslim MP:
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We represent Leave seats, say these North East Labour MPs - but we're backing a People's Vote:
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BREAKING: Labour's Clause V meeting has concluded. Corbyn says he is "very proud" of the new manifesto signed off by top Labour figures:
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New: Former Jeremy Corbyn aide @ParkerCiccone has urged left activists to vote Green in one of the party's target seats, Labour-held Bristol Central. It comes after @OwenJones84 quit Labour and also pledged his support for Greens and independents: .
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NEW: Labour will scrap “inhumane” Universal Credit - and replace the Department for Work and Pensions with a Department for Social Security, Corbyn vows:
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NEW: Wes Streeting accuses Steve Barclay of being the "invisible man" over his lack of response to the ambulance crisis after it was reported that all ten ambulance services in the UK were on the highest alert level possible:
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BREAKING: Unite the Union nominates Rebecca Long-Bailey to be Labour's next leader - and Richard Burgon for deputy:
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NEW: Starmer says "the single best thing" he can do for workers who have voted to go on strike is to deliver a Labour government:
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NEW: Labour launches ambitious race and faith manifesto, vowing to ensure that historical injustice, colonialism and the role of the British empire is taught in state schools:
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NEW: Former Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has rebuffed calls to let moderates have their chance running Labour, telling viewers at an online event: "Give moderates a chance? Don’t be ridiculous":
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"Keir's got this exactly right," says John McDonnell on Keir Starmer's Covid response and approach to opposition during the crisis:
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NEW: Withdraw Labour whip from Rosie Duffield MP and suspend her from parliamentary party, affiliated group LGBT+ Labour urges leadership:
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Labour holds Birmingham Erdington in by-election with increased vote share:
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NEW: Labour to announce 'Plan for Nature' that would create ten new national parks in the first term in government and plant two billion trees by 2040:
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NEW: 83% of Labour voters support a "total ban on all nuclear weapons globally":
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EXCLUSIVE: "People are angry with the Tories, but that’s not been the whole story this week. There was huge enthusiasm for the direction Labour is moving in.". Labour is on the right track, writes @Keir_Starmer after going on the road:
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Update: The chair, co-secretary and a number of other members in Bristol West Labour have been suspended from the party:.
NEW: Labour members report alleged threats of disciplinary action as their local parties consider motions on the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn:
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"Encouraging a nuclear arms race and raising tensions with other major powers provides no way forward for humanity and will make the world more, not less, dangerous.". @jeremycorbyn on the integrated defence and security review:
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NEW: Clive Lewis has declared that he will be supporting rent strikes for those unable to pay rent because of Covid-19, and has called for local councillors to "support that direct action":
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NEW: Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey is set to challenge her rivals tonight – by calling on them all to support bringing back energy, water, rail and mail into public ownership:
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BREAKING: Former Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen announces independent bid for Chingford and Woodford Green
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Shami Chakrabarti tells Labour sources briefing against her to "grow up" amid internal party divisions over the 'spycops' bill:
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NEW: Keir Starmer set to outline plan for NHS "renewal and reform" aiming to create health system "as much about prevention as cure" in Fabians conference speech:
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EXCLUSIVE: Labour is on track to secure a 56-seat majority in the House of Commons, exclusive polling by @SavantaComRes for LabourList reveals:
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NEW: Angela Rayner accuses ministers of a "cover-up" over Evgeny Lebedev's peerage after the government withheld key documents relating to his appointment to the House of Lords:
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"I am pulling my punches when I describe her actions not only as unconstitutional but also as grotesquely irresponsible.". @JohnWhittingQC on why Suella Braverman must go:
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Exclusive: Heads of eight Labour-affiliated trade unions – CWU, FBU, ASLEF, TSSA, BFAWU, NUM, Unite and Community – sign statement urging Labour to resolve the row over Jeremy Corbyn and the party whip:
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NEW: Starmer accuses the Tories of being "soft on crime and soft on the causes of crime", promising that a Labour government would "reverse the shocking lack of security being felt by young people and communities up and down the country":
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NEW: Lammy says Labour has no plans to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn and accuses the Islington MP of "parroting the lines that are coming from Vladimir Putin" by signing the Stop the War Coalition statement:
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Exclusive: Polling shows that Labour members are overwhelmingly in favour of rail, mail, energy and water services being run by the public sector, LabourList can reveal:
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EXCLUSIVE: 55% of UK adults support bringing energy companies back into public ownership and just 8% oppose, new polling by @SavantaComRes for @LabourList reveals:
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NEW: Rebecca Long-Bailey has called on rival Labour leadership candidates Lisa Nandy and Keir Starmer to back a council house “building boom”:
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NEW: 175 chairs and secretaries from 124 Constituency Labour Parties have told general secretary David Evans today that his guidance limiting the discussion of certain controversial motions puts them "in the firing line":
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NEW: Labour successful in bid to force release of documents on Lebedev peerage as 'humble address' motion passes:
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EXCLUSIVE: Labour-affiliated trade unions release joint statement expressing "serious concerns" over Jeremy Corbyn suspension and urging party leadership to "repair this damage":
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NEW: Angela Rayner accuses Liz Truss of "aiding and abetting" Boris Johnson's attempts to "dodge scrutiny" after the Tory leadership candidate said she would vote to shut down the investigation into whether the outgoing PM lied to parliament:
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NEW: Sharon Graham, general secretary of Labour's largest affiliate donor Unite the Union, warns that it is "harder and harder to defend" continuing to fund the party through affiliation fees:
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EXCLUSIVE: Deputy leadership hopeful Richard Burgon wants to set up a 'Tony Benn University of Political Education' as he says Labour has "failed miserably in relation to political education in the last few years" – and much more in our new interview:
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"I have no regrets about defecting. I’d do it again tomorrow. We have a government bereft of leadership and the public can no longer be conned. A government for the moment is needed and I think the moment is nearly here," @Christian4BuryS writes:
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NEW: Keir Starmer set to urge voters to "send the Tories a message they cannot ignore” on rising cost of living, as Labour launches local elections campaign in Bury:
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"Johnson wants you to think his failing government is handling the economy well. That is yet another lie. The Tories are overseeing a criminal waste of Britain’s potential," @Alison_McGovern writes:
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"I often went to school without breakfast, so I’d be starving by the time we got to the school gates. This is what life was like for many working-class kids.". Labour is the only party that will eliminate food insecurity, writes @AngelaRayner:
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"We don’t need a ‘recovery’ that takes us back to how things were, but a transformation towards how things should be.". @NadiaWhittomeMP on why she's backing the climate and ecological emergency bill tabled by Caroline Lucas:
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"You expect support and solidarity from people in your party.". Our interview with Zarah Sultana during #IAM21 on calling Tory ministers "dodgy", receiving Islamophobic abuse, wanting to meet Keir Starmer and reportedly facing deselection:
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NEW: Sharon Graham warns that "the remaining financial support" to the Labour Party is now "under review" amid a dispute between Unite members and a Labour-run council:
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Brexiteer Frank Field loses vote of no confidence by local party
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NEW: Momentum is preparing to launch a campaign for the Labour Party's general secretary to be elected:
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NEW: The Labour Party is set for a record-breaking annual conference in terms of attendance, income generated and number of exhibitors, according to a senior party figure, as the opposition continues to ride high in the national opinion polls:
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"Just as that 1945 Labour government built the NHS in the aftermath of the Second World War, the next Labour government will build a National Care Service out of the pandemic," @wesstreeting writes on the 74th birthday of the NHS:
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NEW: Shadow Employment Rights Secretary Andy McDonald has said that a four-day working week should be "increasingly trialled with the introduction of more pilot schemes":
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NEW: Richard Burgon set to unveil 'Labour Peace Pledge' giving party members veto power over military action being supported by the leadership:
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NEW: Labour proposes 'Care for Carers' to support mental health of 3.1 million NHS and care staff in England:
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Keir Starmer has welcomed the knighthood of former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, saying he "deserves the honour" because his "many achievements" in government "vastly improved our country":
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NEW: Labour leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey has pledged her support for the NHS to be able to produce its own essential medical equipment and supplies:
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NEW: Jess Phillips declares that Labour's controversial attack ad on Rishi Sunak is "not hard enough" and that she would have "gladly" defended it, while demanding that ministers "own" the fact that they have "broken" the justice system:
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📢"The party has shifted towards our Declaration. The party needs to tackle horrible bullying of women, including MPs and councillors, for advocating changes which are now party policy.". Alice Bondi of @LabWomenDec writes as part of our series on self-ID.
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"For the first time since 2001 authoritarian regimes outnumber the world’s democratic countries. Protesters in Hong Kong are trying to resist that trend.". @SKinnock last month on why Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters are an example to us all:
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WATCH: Unite general secretary Len McCluskey describes the decision not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn as a "witch-hunt and persecution of a decent man":
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NEW: Yvette Cooper has won cross-party support for an immigration bill amendment to expand free visa extension scheme to all health and care workers:
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NEW: Ashworth has said the spread of the 'Indian variant' in the UK could have been avoided and argued that the border has been "about as secure as a sieve" throughout the pandemic:
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"Labour can be the party of business and the party of workers. We shouldn't see a contradiction between the two. What we're against is the cronyism," Rachel Reeves tells #FEPSFAB21.
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NEW: Labour should back a recovery universal basic income, say readers – and they describe Labour as “not critical enough” of the government’s Covid-19 response:
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John McDonnell has demanded a ban on all private sector contracts being used for the UK's coronavirus response services in a bid to end "rampant" conflicts of interest:
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I'm backing a People's Vote to give the British the chance to take back control of Brexit, says @GarethThomasMP
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"Nobody should have to go through the same struggle for justice as the Hillsborough families. But they repeatedly do because the law allows it.". @AndyBurnhamGM and @MetroMayorSteve on the #HillsboroughLawNow campaign:
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NEW: Labour members have been suspended for a motion of no confidence in Keir Starmer and David Evans, despite it being withdrawn before the meeting:
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"While we are focused on the pandemic, Boris Johnson's government is busy trying to rip up all the promises it made to get Brexit done.". @RCorbettMEP on the danger of a no-deal Brexit in the midst of the Covid crisis:
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