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Campaign news

MPs’ expenses scandal

The scandals surrounding MPs’ expenses has dominated the news over the last few weeks. LRC Chair John McDonnell MP said: [continue...]
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Labour lost control of all four counties it was defending: Derbyshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire. With all results in, Labour has 328 fewer councillors than it won in 2005 (includes by-election defeats and defections in the interim) and maintains only 170 councillors. [continue...]
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European Elections meltdown

In the Euro-elections tonight Labour is experiencing catastrophically bad results with its lowest share of the vote in a nationwide election since 1910, when the Party was only four years old. In 2004 Labour topped the poll in Wales and in Yorkshire & the Humber but now these Labour heartlands are falling to the Tories. It is clear that Labour is going to poll substantially below 20% and will probably finish 3rd or even 4th overall [continue...]
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Brown’s “inadequate” Iraq Inquiry

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced the arrangements for an inquiry into the Iraq war. Jeremy Corbyn MP said: [continue...]
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McDonnell welcomes union’s support for Labour ‘change campaign’

In his address to Unison conference, Dave Prentis (General Secretary) has today called for his union to suspend all Constituency Development Plans only to work with MPs and to support candidates who back the union’s policies to fight for a manifesto that excludes privatisation. [continue...]
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John McDonnell on ‘Building Britain’s Future’

Gordon Brown announced his policy programme until the General Election under the ‘Building Britain’s Future’ this week. [continue...]
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Five steps to the return of Labour - Jeremy Corbyn

The latest crop of opinion polls make grim reading for Labour. Cameron’s Tories are now getting consistently over 40 per cent. The Conservative leaders’s message of tough cuts is clearly resonating well with the coalition of meanness that propelled Thatcher to office 30 years ago. [continue...]
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Queen’s Speech ‘hardly inspirational’

The Government has today set out in the Queen’s Speech its legislative agenda for the period up until the General Election. [continue...]
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Press Releases

‘Labour to the core’ Alice Mahon leaving shows ‘political catastrophe’ for Party

Former Halifax Labour MP Alice Mahon, a member for over 50 years, has resigned from the Labour Party. Alice Mahon was elected to the LRC National Committee at the November 2008 LRC Conference, topping the poll. [continue...]
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McDonnell: Electoral annihilation means change or die

Labour has now lost control of Derbyshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire as the Party’s vote has collapsed. It is now clear that Labour is facing the prospect of annihilation in a General Election.
John McDonnell MP, LRC Chair, said: [continue...]
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Labour Left threatens ‘Candidates for Change’ slate if policies don’t change

The Labour left refused to be dragged into either the plotting to oust Brown or the positioning by others seeking to fill his shoes if he fell. Our line was straightforward – there’s no point in changing the faces at the top if there is no change in political direction. [continue...]
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Government Iraq Enquiry Process in Shambles

The Government’s majority was cut as Labour MPs rebelled against Brown’s plans for a secret inquiry on Iraq, to which the Prime Minister appoints the inquiry team, and those giving evidence are not doing so under oath. [continue...]
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‘Shocking result for Labour’ in unnecessary by-election

Labour has been defeated in the Norwich North by-election caused by the barring of former Labour MP Ian Gibson from standing at the next election. [continue...]
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LRC TV

Graham Bash on Labour Briefing