GORDON Brown has been given a five-week deadline to transform Labour's fortunes or face a leadership challenge after the European elections. Labour MPs are warning that the Prime Minister will face a challenge should the party do badly at the June ...Read More
Detectives will pass files imminently on the Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, and peers Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord Clarke of Hampstead to the Crown Prosecution Service, Westminster sources have said.
Keir Starmer, the Director of ...Read More
The British National Party will be granted up to one appearance on Question Time each year if it maintains its current level of public support, the Director-General of the BBC said today.
Giving evidence to the House of Lords communications committee, ...Read More
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party (BNP), is to hold talks with the BBC to try to secure his party’s biggest coverage in next year’s general election. It will include a bid to participate in the party ...Read More
Gordon Brown and David Cameron were fighting tonight to contain a rebellion against rules for parliamentary expenses as growing numbers of Conservative and Labour MPs found common cause to fight the changes.
As MPs digested the scale of the rules, with ...Read More
* Poll shows Conservatives have 15-point lead * Only a third of Labour MPs expect to win majority * Labour clashes with BBC over PM health questions (Recasts after Darling speech, latest poll) BRIGHTON, England, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Opinion polls castgloom over Britain's ...Read More
BRIGHTON, England—British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted he won't quit his post as his governing Labour Party met Sunday for its annual convention before a national election the party is expected to lose. Brown's party trails far behind the main opposition ...Read More
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Sunday that he won't quit his post, as his governing Labour Party met for a final annual convention before a national election in which the party will almost certainly lose power. Brown trails far behind ...Read More
Among those known to be at the centre of inquiries are Elliot Morley and David Chaytor, the Labour MPs, who claimed for mortgages that they had already paid off. Baroness Uddin, the Labour peer, is also under investigation. She allegedly claimed ...Read More
GORDON Brown will face another leadership challenge before the end of the year, Lord Mandelson has warned, believing the threat to Mr Brown will re-emerge at the party’s annual conference in September. Lord Mandelson, who is effectively Deputy Prime Minister after ...Read More
Miss Blears launched a stinging criticism of the Prime Minister's appearance on the video sharing website YouTube in which he outlined reforms to the Commons expenses system. Speaking for the first time since she quit the cabinet, she said of her ...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Communities Secretary Hazel Blears said on Friday she regretted the timing of her resignation last week on the eve of European and local elections in which Labour suffered a rout. "The effect on the party just before ...Read More
Hazel Blears today said she "enormously" regretted the timing of her resignation from the government on the eve of last week's local and European elections. In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, the former communities secretary said that, after thinking ...Read More
Now that U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has beaten back a mutiny from within his own Labour Party, he faces a year-long battle against a fresh-faced politician from the party of Margaret Thatcher. Mr. Brown must call a general election within ...Read More
Anna Heath, 23, was among a crowd of around 100 people who surrounded the leader of the British National Party, many of whom brandished placards and hurled eggs, which forced him to abandon a press briefing on College Green in ...Read More
Margaret Beckett, the former foreign secretary, joined the race to become the next Speaker yesterday, prompting bookmakers to slash the odds on the Labour veteran breaking through the crowded field of hopefuls. Ms Beckett, who first served as a minister ...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown will unveil plans on Wednesday to clean up parliament, whose authority has been damaged by an expenses scandal, and try to regain the initiative after attempts to oust him. Brown, who has for now ...Read More
Sitting proudly in wheelchairs or with walking sticks, the surviving British veterans of Spain’s civil war have finally been given Spanish citizenship in recognition of their fight against General Franco seven decades ago. Three of the former soldiers warned, however, that ...Read More
It is a tradition of electoral successes, such as the Conservative Party has just had, for the leader to warn against complacency. David Cameron did this on Monday, after his party came first in a crowded field in the European ...Read More
Jan Jananayagam campaigns for Tamil civil rights A Tamil rights campaigner won more than 50,000 votes in the European elections - making her one of the most successful independent candidates ever. Jan Jananayagam gained more votes than some political parties in ...Read More
The British Prime Minister and his new cabinet have been meeting for the first time after a tumultuous week that included calls for Gordon Brown to step down. But Labour's embattled leader has survived this latest move to oust. Mr Brown was ...Read More
