However, there is something significant about what happened there. Labour’s vote collapsed, from 36,097 in 2019 to 20,039 this year. The question is, why did 16,000 supporters desert the party locally ...
A Labour MP has won the election to chair the Commons Scottish Affairs Committee by just two votes following a recount. Patricia Ferguson (Glasgow West) emerged victorious over her fellow member ...
Sir Keir Starmer faced a Labour rebellion as he won a Commons vote on the government’s controversial plans to end winter fuel payments for most pensioners. MPs voted 348 to 228, a majority of ...
Her comments come ahead of a vote on Tuesday, which is likely to see the Prime Minister suffer another backbench rebellion. A dozen Labour backbenchers have signed a motion put forward by one of ...
The vast majority of those who didn’t vote, Labour claimed, had, as they saw it, a legitimate reason not to, rather than defying the government. But my colleague Harry Farley has been doing some ...
Dozens of Labour MPs failed to vote with Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a House of Commons vote on the Government decision to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners. In a House of Commons vote on ...
However, Mr Trickett was the only Labour MP to vote against the plan as many rebels were scared off by warnings from the whips that they could be suspended from the party. At the start of his ...
A hefty 53 Labour MPs abstained from yesterday’s vote in what was widely viewed as a silent rebellion following fury from constituents and campaigners. But the PM still cruised to a 120-majority ...
The division list showed Labour MP Jon Trickett was the only rebel to support the Conservative motion, while no vote was recorded for 52 other Labour MPs. This does not automatically equate to an ...