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LABOUR MANIFESTO NEWS, POLICIES AND GENERAL ELECTION UPDATES

EXCLUSIVE: Corbyn met with group of Hamas extremists in PARLIAMENT who called for attacks on the Royal Navy, boycotted Holocaust Memorial Day and praised suicide bombers - as it emerges he secretly visited terror group in Ramallah

21/08/18 12:11

21/08/18 12:05

Shadow trade secretary Barry Gardiner voiced fears that people would lose faith in the ballot box and turn to the extreme right if the 2016 result was not honoured.

20/08/18 19:27

The Labour leader highlighted his meeting with Khaled Mashal - who has previously praised 'noble' jihadis - in an article for the communist Morning Star newspaper in 2010.

20/08/18 15:24

Fadel Takrouri (pictured), the party’s new West Midlands regional director, was pictured at an event calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. He is serving five life sentences.

17/08/18 18:54

A Labour spokesman accused Dame Margaret of being 'disconnected from reality' after she spoke of her emotional response to being put under investigation.

17/08/18 18:06

Mark Lewis, an ex Labour supporter who represented victims in the phone-hacking case, and Mandy Blumenthal said they are planning to move to Israel by the end of the year.

17/08/18 15:38

In a loaded barb on Twitter, the shadow chancellor accused some of his backbenchers of conspiring for two years to split the Labour party.

17/08/18 13:27

Len McCluskey, leader of the Unite trade union, launched an extraordinary attack on the Labour leader's critics accusing them of exploiting the scandal to weaken him.

16/08/18 23:12

Lancaster City Council has held a disciplinary hearing in which Mr Clifford's array of suggestive messages was laid bare before the standards committee.

16/08/18 20:08

Sir Patrick said that he believes Mr Corbyn wants the UK to be plunged into a chaotic and harmful Brexit so he can swoop in and get the keys to No10.

16/08/18 17:37

Labour has been plunged into a bitter civil war over how to tackle the racist abuse which has festered among some of its members.

16/08/18 00:45

Councillor Faisal Rana, who sits on Rochdale Borough Council, said he didn't realise casting votes in the two wards was an offence. He took 56 per cent of the vote in Spotland and Falinge.

15/08/18 15:49

Jeremy Corbyn is being questioned about whether he failed to declare a trip to Tunisia when he is thought to have visited graves of terror leaders linked to the Munich 1972 Olympics massacre.

14/08/18 23:11

The Labour leader is facing a growing backlash over his actions from the Israeli prime minister, relatives of the murdered athletes, Jewish groups and even his own MPs.

14/08/18 09:54

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was last night attacked by the Israeli prime minister, relatives of the murdered athletes, Jewish groups and even his own MPs over his wreath laying.

13/08/18 18:24

Fiona Onasanya, 34, (pictured) who won the key seat of Peterborough in 2017 and is a member of Jeremy Corbyn's front bench, allegedly conspired with her brother Festus to avoid penalty points.

13/08/18 16:32

EXCLUSIVE: Homeless vendor Andrew McGarry, 52, from Exeter, has been left in tears after being banned from selling. He refused to take part in a publicity stunt and claims he has been fired.

13/08/18 13:09

Politics professor and pollster Matthew Goodwin said angry voters could desert Theresa May's Conservatives and switch to Ukip - leaving marginal seats to fall to Labour.

10/08/18 16:00

And the Tories have overtaken Labour and now lead by four points despite being hit by their own in-fighting over the Boris Johnson burqa row,, according to the YouGov poll.

09/08/18 18:44

If Jeremy Corbyn refuses the demand then he could face the biggest crisis in his leadership since 2016, when dozens of his shadow ministers quit their post in a failed attempt to oust him from the top job.

09/08/18 13:38

Rupa Huq, MP for Ealing Central and Acton, was on channel 4 News when she said: 'It's this thing about not taking things seriously, like the old Boris of old: "Oh sorry, I've just s***** you wife didn't realise.'"

09/08/18 13:35

Greatly respected on both sides of the House of Commons, Frank Field is renowned as one of Westminster’s most independent and fairest-minded MPs, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

08/08/18 18:02

Activists from the Islington Labour party, in Mr Corbyn's constituency, joined a demonstration to protest against 'BBC bias' in the reporting of the leader and the crisis rocking the party.

08/08/18 17:36

As his supporters risked fanning the flames of controversy by making in a letter to The Guardian, Jeremy Corbyn was pictured soaking up the sun at a seaside cafe on holiday.

08/08/18 17:33

The former minister launched a blistering attack on the Labour leadership for waging a war against moderate MPs.

08/08/18 17:06

EXCLUSIVE: Lambeth Councillor Irfan Mohammed shared the conspiracy theory which suggested Jews working in the World Trade Centre knew about the terror attacks ahead of time.

07/08/18 22:13

Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of questioning Israel’s very right to exist in an interview on Iranian TV during which he said BBC top brass were facing pressure from Israeli officials.

07/08/18 01:27

Corbynistas turned on the senior Labour MP after he broke ranks with Jeremy  Corbyn to warn that the party faces 'eternal shame' unless it roots out the racism.

07/08/18 00:59

The Barking MP (pictured) was accused of calling the party leader a 'f****** anti-Semite' in a House of Commons debate but the action against her has now been abandoned.

06/08/18 10:59

Mr Corbyn is understood to be unwilling to move on the Jewish community’s demand that he accepts that defining Israel as a ‘racist endeavour’ is anti-Semitic.

04/08/18 02:50

Jeremy Corbyn ignored calls from Jewish leaders for an 'abject apology' and rejected an unprecedented joint claim from three Jewish newspapers he was an 'existential threat' to the community.

04/08/18 01:19

He made the comments while appearing on Iran state TV. Labour spokesperson said:  ‘Use of “brother” is a respectful term for a male Muslim and in no way implies support for his actions'

03/08/18 08:54

Labour's idea of a universal basic income has been likened to putting every adult in the country on welfare. According to experts the plan would make the poor worse off.

02/08/18 15:58

The Board of Deputies piled pressure on Jeremy Corbyn as even Momentum abandoned Peter Willsman, the Labour official taped ranting about 'Jewish Trump fanatics'.

02/08/18 15:20

Jeremy Corbyn’s refusal to sign up to the full internationally recognised definition of anti-Semitism might be explained by fears that he knows he has fallen foul of it himself

02/08/18 10:32

Jeremy Corbyn - who last night apologised for his own attendance at an event where Israeli policy was compared to the Nazis - has made no comment on a leaked recording of Peter Willsman's tirade.

02/08/18 10:31

My father, a refugee from the Holocaust who died just two short months ago at the grand age of 103, would have been horrified, writes ALEX BRUMMER.

02/08/18 10:28

Within minutes of the start of the stormy Holocaust Memorial Day meeting in the Commons back in 2010, Jeremy Corbyn called on the services of a uniformed police officer, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

02/08/18 02:17

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said John McDonell's (pictured) policy was an example of the 'economics of the madhouse' after the shadow chancellor said he wanted to pilot the scheme.

02/08/18 01:25

Labour MP Keith Vaz has been accused of bullying staff - including one clerk who he allegedly shouted at in public and brought up the fact she was not a mother. He denies the allegations.

02/08/18 00:00

The Labour Party endured a fevered day of briefing and counter-briefing following the revelation that Jeremy Corbyn hosted an event comparing the Israeli government to the Nazis.

01/08/18 18:57

Jeremy Corbyn remained silent last night amid mounting calls for one of his key allies to be thrown out of the Labour Party over ‘disgusting’ comments about Jews.

01/08/18 13:34

Ann Sinnott, 68, stood down from Cambridge City Council, saying: 'I do not want to be a member of a council that fails to recognise that female-only facilities are needed by women as a generality.'

01/08/18 09:45

Jeremy Corbyn was plunged into a fresh anti-Semitism crisis last night after Peter Willsman was caught on tape blaming Jewish ‘Trump fanatics’ for inventing claims against Labour.

01/08/18 01:53

Jenny Lee Clarke, 42, was cleared of the two charges she faced after a 90 minute trial at Cardiff Crown Court. She was accused of trying to boost her pay from £37,000 to £39,000.

31/07/18 23:19

Few people in the crowded meeting of Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee were surprised to hear hard-Left firebrand Peter Willsman’s hate-filled rant, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

31/07/18 15:14

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell is said to have demanded a climb down over a damaging stance which has seen Jeremy Corbyn branded an 'existential threat' to the UK's Jewish community.

31/07/18 08:10

Political parties go mad through displaying intolerance, and right now the disease is becoming notifiable in both, writes AUSTIN MITCHELL. But it’s most dangerous in mine, Labour.

30/07/18 08:02

A cynic might think that UK Labour’s leadership is deliberately dragging its feet in its response to claims that some malign sections of the party are deeply anti-Semitic.

30/07/18 08:00

Labour MP Luciana Berger has hit back at an anti-Semitic tweet saying Jewish people can leave the UK if Jeremy Corbyn becomes prime minister.

30/07/18 07:58

Jeremy Corbyn has made his party a home for ‘overt anti-Semites’, the Board of Deputies of British Jews said last night in its strongest statement yet.

27/07/18 21:07

Vauxhall MP Kate Hoey was also accused of 'colluding with Nigel Farage' to force through Brexit in defiance of the wishes of her Remain-supporting constituents.

26/07/18 19:41

Left-winger Billy Bragg said the decision of three Jewish newspapers to run a joint front page saying they were 'united' against Labour anti-Semitism was 'pouring petrol on the fire' of the row.

26/07/18 16:39

Steph Booth, who is the widow of Mrs Blair's father, Tony Booth, reportedly said she had been abused over her ties to the former PM.

25/07/18 21:05

Peterborough MP Fiona Onasanya appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on July 12. She is due to appear again on August 13.

25/07/18 16:42

Dubbed the show's 'most unlikely' fans are Manchester's Lucy Powell, Birmingham's Jess Phillips and Walthamstow's Stella Creasy who appeared on the ITV daytime show on Wednesday.

25/07/18 13:21

The shadow chancellor rebuked Margaret Hodge for 'haranguing' Mr Corbyn amid a furious backlash at the code of conduct on anti-Semitism.

25/07/18 10:46

Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham, was accused by activists of ‘industrial-scale racism’ for highlighting the ‘common ethnic heritage’ of those involved in the town’s sexual abuse scandal.

25/07/18 02:19

Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris, who is shadow equalities minister, was forced to deny that she pulled the hair of Jenny Lee Clarke so hard that clumps came out.

24/07/18 00:48

Dame Margaret Hodge was threatened with disciplinary action last week for calling the Labour leader an anti-Semite and a racist.

23/07/18 13:14

The veteran former minister, who lost family members in the Holocaust, said she 'stands by' her barb amid a furious row over the party's new code of conduct.

22/07/18 17:07

The leader has faced a massive backlash after new conduct rules drawn up amid a wave of vile abuse in the party stopped short of accepting the international definition of anti-Semitism.

20/07/18 00:34

The investigation into Labour MP Keith Vaz is officially on hold nearly two years after a newspaper exposed his involvement with male prostitutes because of undefined medical problems.

19/07/18 18:59

Tolga Aramaz, 23, who represents Edmonton Green, in Enfield, London, fell on to the awning of a restaurant below an Ibiza apartment before ending up on the terrace, sustaining multiple injuries.

18/07/18 21:05

Dame Margaret Hodge will be sanctioned by her party despite being praised by some party colleagues for daring to confront Jeremy Corbyn over failing to tackle anti-Semitism among his supporters.

18/07/18 21:00

Dame Margaret Hodge will be sanctioned by her party despite being praised by some party colleagues for daring to confront Jeremy Corbyn over failing to tackle anti-Semitism among his supporters.

18/07/18 19:01

The PM revealed her plans for the EU to collect tariffs for the UK and vice versa might not be ready before the UK fully leaves the bloc, after the transition period, in December 2020.

18/07/18 17:42

Rebels complained that Eurosceptics had hijacked Theresa May's premiership after a knife edge vote on whether the UK should stay in the EU customs union.

18/07/18 14:00

John Woodcock, who has been suspended over sexual harassment allegations, said the process against him was being 'manipulated for factional purposes'.

18/07/18 08:32

Theresa May’s government was saved by five Labour Eurosceptics as they joined forces to defeat a vote to keep Britain tied to the EU.

18/07/18 00:21

Labour MPs who helped Theresa May see off a challenge to her Brexit plans have been threatened with deselection by party supporters.

17/07/18 00:49

The letter, jointly signed by 68 British rabbis from across the political spectrum, said Labour was acting in an ‘insulting and arrogant way’.

15/07/18 18:59

Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said that a second vote cannot be taken 'off the table completely'.

15/07/18 13:56

An Opinium poll found that Tory support has plummeted to 36 per cent - some six points lower than it was in June.

15/07/18 10:49

The explosive claims were revealed in a new book — Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy — by Tom Baldwin, who was Ed Miliband's chief of communications.

13/07/18 18:26

The shadow foreign secretary lashed the US President saying his comments were 'rudeness upon rudeness upon rudeness'.

13/07/18 12:45

Jared O'Mara said he had experienced 'little to make me feel welcome, understood and accepted' in the party in the last year after his past behaviour came to light.

13/07/18 02:01

Yesterday we had the Government’s long-awaited White Paper on how to take us out (or rather not quite out) of the EU. Dominic Raab brought in the document - but MPs were in the dark about it.

11/07/18 11:41

A Labour MP once suspended in a row over anti-Semitism because she shared a post suggesting Israel should be relocated to the US has been made shadow equalities minister.

10/07/18 07:12

Tory MPs are threatening to oust Theresa May from the top job, while speculation has renewed that she might quit and walk away from her divided party - and country.

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