Ex-Labour Minister Lord Myners latest peer to face questions over lobbying

A former Labour Minister is one of several peers facing calls to quit their second jobs in lobbying companies as the sleaze scandal engulfing Westminster grew last night. Lord Myners, who was a Treasury Minister in Gordon Brown’s government, is chairman of PR giant Edelman and vice chairman of the consultancy Global Counsel. Last night, … Read more

Ex-Labour Minister Lord Myners latest peer to face questions over lobbying

A former Labour Minister is one of several peers facing calls to quit their second jobs in lobbying companies as the sleaze scandal engulfing Westminster grew last night. Lord Myners, who was a Treasury Minister in Gordon Brown’s government, is chairman of PR giant Edelman and vice chairman of the consultancy Global Counsel. Last night, … Read more

Lib Dem peer Shirley Williams, one of the ‘Gang of Four’ ex-Labour Cabinet ministers, dies aged 90 

Lib Dem peer Shirley Williams, one of the ‘Gang of Four’ disenchanted former Labour Cabinet ministers who quit the party in the 1980s before eventually forming the Lib Dems, dies aged 90 By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 16:03 BST, 12 April 2021 | Updated: 16:05 BST, 12 April 2021 Shirley Williams, one … Read more

The return of Tony Blair? Ex-Labour leader and prime minister ‘advising Matt Hancock on vaccines’

The return of Tony Blair? Ex-Labour leader and three-term prime minister ‘advising Matt Hancock and other Tories on vaccines strategy’ because he believes he can improve ‘inadequate’ leadership Mr Blair is powerful figure in the fight to use vaccines to save lives and economy Sunday Times said he offered ‘strategic advice’ to Hancock several times  … Read more

The return of Tony Blair? Ex-Labour leader and prime minister ‘advising Matt Hancock on vaccines’

The return of Tony Blair? Ex-Labour leader and three-term prime minister ‘advising Matt Hancock and other Tories on vaccines strategy’ because he believes he can improve ‘inadequate’ leadership Mr Blair is powerful figure in the fight to use vaccines to save lives and economy Sunday Times said he offered ‘strategic advice’ to Hancock several times  … Read more

Did Jeremy Corbyn break rules? Ex-Labour leader filmed with brother and two others on Christmas Day

Did Jeremy Corbyn break Tier 4 lockdown rules? Former Labour leader meets more than one person when he shakes hands with his Covid-denying brother and friend on Christmas Day A video shared online shows group of three attend former Labour leader’s home Group includes Corbyn’s Covid-denying brother Piers who boasts about arrests Without masks, all … Read more

Jeremy Corbyn supporters pour £340,000 into legal fund as ex-Labour leader is suspended from party

Supporters of Jeremy Corbyn poured around £10,000 into a ‘legal fund’ for the former Labour leader on Thursday as he was suspended from his party for downplaying a damning report into anti-Semitism.  The donations were made to a Go Fund Me site set up in July by a supporter after Mr Corbyn faced legal action … Read more

Ex-labour leader Jeremy Corbyn backs leftwing group planning protest against June 1 school reopening

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tonight  threw his weight behind a hard-Left plan to prevent schools from re-opening at the start of June. The Islington North MP, 70, was the keynote speaker at an online rally organised by the Healthworker Coronavirus Activists Group. It is calling for a ‘day of action’ on May 28, followed by … Read more

Police blast MP Stephen Kinnock for going to his father Neil’s to celebrate ex-Labour leader’s 78th

‘This was NOT essential travel’: Police blast MP Stephen Kinnock for going to his father Neil’s house to celebrate the ex-Labour leader’s 78th birthday Labour MP Stephen Kinnock disciplined by South Wales police on Twitter  MP for Aberavon unwittingly revealed he had flouted lockdown guidelines He had travelled to visit his father Neil Kinnock at … Read more