Calais migrant crisis: UK and France to sign deal for increased security August 18, 2015 Home secretary Theresa May will travel to Calais on Thursday to sign a deal with French interior minister Bernard Cazeneue on tackling the migrant crisis. Read more: The Calais migrant crisis shows why Europe needs a common migration policy and a new asylum system The ministers will agree to increase security measures for preventing [...]
We need the facts on fracking to make responsible decisions about UK energy August 18, 2015 Today the Government announced that it will award 27 new exploration licences, opening up 1,000 square miles of the UK as potential sites for shale gas extraction. With thousands more people faced with the possibility of having it on their doorstep, the debate on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been well and truly renewed. Proponents [...]
Sadiq Khan gains backing of Neil Kinnock to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London August 18, 2015 Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has pledged his support to Sadiq Khan to become the Labour candidate for London mayor. Writing for the Mirror, Kinnock said: “Labour must recapture City Hall, and our best chance of doing that is with Sadiq Khan as our candidate for London mayor in 2016.” Read more: Meet London mayor [...]
Did Sadiq Khan just become the new front-runner for Mayor of London? August 18, 2015 Labour mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan has received a massive boost thanks to a new Survation poll showing he would beat Conservative front-runner Zac Goldsmith in a head-to-head race for City Hall. When Survation asked 1,000 Londoners if they would vote for Khan, Goldsmith or “another party’s candidate”, a surprising 50 per cent said they would [...]
Poll: Tory MPs would cheer Corbyn victory August 18, 2015 The #Tories for Corbyn movement may have found more supporters – on the Conservative backbenches. More than half of Tory backbench MPs would “cheer” the election of the left-wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, according to a new poll out today from Maitland, a communications firm. Maitland polled 89 backbench MPs earlier this month, [...]
Greeks work longer hours than any other Europeans August 18, 2015 Think “lazy Greeks” and “hard-working Germans”? Well, put your stereotypes away, because it turns out Greece is actually the country with longest average working hours in Europe. Germans, meanwhile, work fewer hours than any other Europeans, according data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Greece may have suffered bad press recently, but [...]
Labour leadership race: Jeremy Corbyn and Andy Burnham pledge to work together while Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham tell each other to withdraw from the contest August 18, 2015 Is there a bromance blossoming among Labour leadership candidates? After Andy Burnham used a speech to praise Jeremy Corbyn and offer him a role in "rebuilding" the party, Corbyn has said he could work with Burnham, too. Speaking to BBC's Newsnight, Corbyn said: “Obviously there has to be a party of all the talents and [...]
Meet London mayor hopeful and Labour MP Diane Abbott: Can the left wing regain City Hall? August 18, 2015 Diane Abbott may be Labour’s most left-wing hopeful for mayor of London, but the longtime MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington insists that she is not campaigning to become the next Ken Livingstone. “I’m not the second coming of Ken Livingstone,” Abbott told Morning Wire yesterday in her Portcullis House office. “Different gender for [...]
Labour leadership race: Former foreign secretary David Miliband pledges support to Liz Kendall while warning of the risks of electing Jeremy Corbyn August 17, 2015 Former Labour frontbencher David Miliband has pledged his support to Liz Kendall in the Labour leadership contest. Writing in the Guardian, Miliband said he has been “struck since the beginning of the campaign by the plain speaking, fresh thinking and political courage of Liz Kendall and the new generation of politicians – Chuka Umunna, Emma [...]
Labour leadership race: Andy Burnham pledges to involve Jeremy Corbyn in “rebuilding” the party if he becomes Labour leader August 17, 2015 Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has committed to involving Jeremy Corbyn in “rebuilding" the party if he wins the contest. Read more: Shadow chancellor Chris Leslie confirms he would not serve under Jeremy Corbyn On the same day the first votes on who will be the next leader of the party were due to be cast, [...]