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What would it take for a new British left-wing party to succeed?

Last week, the MP for Coventry South, Zarah Sultana, made an audacious decision. Having already lost the Labour party whip for opposing the two-child benefit cap, Sultana announced she would co-lead a new left-wing party with Jeremy Corbyn, who was expelled from Labour in 2024.

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Unite votes to suspend Angela Rayner’s membership over Birmingham bins dispute

Unite has also voted to ‘re-examine its relationship with Labour’, in a sign of a growing divide between the union and the party.

The Independent UK

Unite suspends Angela Rayner’s membership as it says Labour is not on the side of workers

General secretary Sharon Graham said the deputy prime minister ‘has had every opportunity to intervene and resolve this dispute’ over Birmingham’s bin strike

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Jonathon Shafi: What they call chaos is a new left demanding justice

THE mere thought of a “new party of the left” sent many into a kind of meltdown

The National (Scotland)

Anas Sarwar 'must cut ties' to Tony Blair think tank linked to 'sickening' Gaza plan

ANAS Sarwar and Keir Starmer have been urged to cut ties to Tony Blair’s think tank after revelations regarding its presence when a plan was…

The National (Scotland)

Corbyn and Sultana’s new breakaway party will only boost Nigel Farage, Neil Kinnock warns

Lord Kinnock said the new party should be called the ‘Farage assistance group’

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan says ‘disappointing’ Labour year will ‘pave the way’ for Reform UK

The 59-year old actor and comedian reportedly supported the Labour party until last year, when he backed the Green Party.

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Steve Coogan claims Keir Starmer’s Labour will ‘pave the way’ for Reform UK

‘Alan Partridge’ star claimed Labour are ‘putting Band-Aids on the gash in the side of the Titanic’

The Independent UK

In search of Labour’s ‘working people’ – the paradox at the heart of Keir Starmer’s first year in power

It’s one year since Keir Starmer led the Labour party to a landslide victory. Starmer’s manifesto, “Change” had proposed “securonomics” as a solution to the UK’s many crises. This was sold as a way of ensuring “sustained economic growth as the only route to improving the prosperity of our country…

The Conversation

Minister shrugs off ex-Labour MP’s announcement of new political party

Zarah Sultana said she would ‘co-lead the founding of a new party’ with Jeremy Corbyn.

Evening Standard

Labour created the modern welfare state. Are they now dismantling it?

THE Labour Party created the modern welfare state ...

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Ex-Labour MP Sultana says she will set up new party with Jeremy Corbyn

Zarah Sultana had the Labour whip suspended last year.

Evening Standard

Pound climbs and bond yields ease as PM backs Reeves

The FTSE 100 index closed up 48.51 points at 8,823.20.

Evening Standard

Voices: The markets have spoken – and it is they, not the prime minister, that saved Rachel Reeves

COMMENT : In its response to the chancellor’s possible resignation, in the face of market jitters the City has made it clear that she is Labour’s only candidate for No 11, says James Moore – and any attempt to replace her could prove very expensive for the country

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Who is Rachel Reeves' sister? Meet the Labour MP Ellie Reeves

Ellie Reeves is a Labour MP and the sister of UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Evening Standard

PM takes blame for welfare U-turn as he gives full backing to Chancellor

Speaking in his first interview since a threatened backbench revolt, Sir Keir Starmer acknowledged the past few days had been ‘tough’.

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer told keeping two-child cap is 'ultimate betrayal' after welfare U-turn

KEIR Starmer has been warned that keeping the two-child benefit cap would be the “ultimate betrayal” following reports that the Labour…

The Guardian - UK

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government

The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor

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Can Keir Starmer find any policy that Anas Sarwar won't support?

THE extreme loyalty shown to Keir Starmer by his Scottish deputy is becoming more and more of a rarity within the Labour Party ...

Evening Standard

London council deputy mayor is suspended - but Labour won't say why

Councillor Kathleen Fraser is the second consecutive deputy mayor of Brent to face an investigation

Al Jazeera

‘Growing number’ of Britons view Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide: Poll

British sympathy for the Palestinian cause – and criticism of Israel – is surging, according to a new survey.

The National (Scotland)

'Don't talk over me': Stephen Flynn in spat with Labour MP on disability cuts

STEPHEN Flynn has hit out at Labour's planned cuts to disability benefits in a fiery spat with a Labour MP.

The National (Scotland)

Martin Lewis issues energy bills hike warning as Keir Starmer urged to apologise

Energy bills are set to rise again before this Christmas, Martin Lewis has warned

The Independent UK

Voices: Rachel Reeves sounded like she was fighting for her political life

COMMENT: Delivering her spending review, the chancellor even made her theatrical opposite number look convincing – she needs to rediscover her firebrand energy and win Labour MPs back onside, says John Rentoul

The Conversation

With so many parties ‘ruling out’ working with other parties, is MMP losing its way?

There has been a lot of “ruling out” going on in New Zealand politics lately. In the most recent outbreak, both the incoming and outgoing deputy prime ministers, ACT’s David Seymour and NZ First’s Winston Peters, ruled out ever working with the Labour Party.

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