Jeremy Corbyn

Readers have their say on Keir Starmer’s performance on Brexit and Europe. A lot of us are trying to get our heads round Keir Starmer’s “the debate between Leave and Remain is over” (it certainly isn’t) and “we are not going to be a party that keeps banging on about Brexit” (yes we are). We’re […]

Boris Johnson is shying away from suggestions his father and Jeremy Corbyn should be fined for breaking coronavirus restrictions. The prime minister’s official spokesperson said that enforcement of the new regulations were up to the police, not ministers. The prime minister’s father, Stanley Johnson, was pictured entering a shop on Tuesday without a face mask meanwhile […]

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has apologised after reportedly breaking coronavirus restrictions. Corbyn was pictured with his wife, Laura Alvarez, at a party of nine people, which breached the rules that state only six people can meet indoors or outside. The photograph was published in The Sun, a newspaper which also published an apology from […]

Three Labour MPs have lost their junior roles after defying the party whip to oppose a controversial bill, backing Jeremy Corbyn rather than Keir Starmer. The MPs went against instructions to abstain on the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill, which Tory ministers insist is aimed at protecting armed forces personnel from “vexatious prosecutions”, […]

Sir Keir Starmer has used his “virtual” party conference speech to declare that Labour is “under new leadership” as he pleads with voters who switched allegiances under Jeremy Corbyn to return to the party. Starmer: Second national lockdown would be sign of governmen In his first set-piece speech since taking the helm, Sir Keir said […]

Back in 2018, I was working on the anti-Semitism section of a book about Jeremy Corbyn. After several emails and phone calls to the leader of the opposition’s office went unanswered, I sent Corbyn’s head of communications and strategy, Seumas Milne, the notes of my briefing from the Board of Deputies of British Jews about […]