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The Sun
April 26, 2018
JEREMY Corbyn's top defence official last night defied the Labour boss as she hinted at support for the bombing raids on Syria signed off by Theresa May. Nia Griffith also called for tougher action on Russia and praised Nato, in another sign she opposes the party chief's long-held views. Labour shadowÃâà...
Jewish Chronicle
April 26, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of backtracking over a previous commitment made by Labour's ruling body to adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition on antisemitism. A letter seen by the JC, which was written by the party's previous General Secretary Iain McNicol clearlyÃâà...
Irish Mirror
April 26, 2018
Piers Morgan openly mocked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Good Morning Britain after footage showed Jeremy Corbyn trying his best to politely avoid questions on the party's anti-Semitism row. The Good Morning Britain hosts waited with baited breath as their correspondents were stood at the house ofÃâà...
Belfast Telegraph
April 26, 2018
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn calls for Home Secretary Amber Rudd to take responsibility and resign over the Windrush scandal. Daily News Headlines Newsletter. Today's news headlines, directly to your inbox. Sign Up. Popular. Dialogue: Mary Lou McDonald. Sinn Fein's McDonald uses termÃâà...
Sky News
April 26, 2018
As it happened: Jeremy Corbyn tells Amber Rudd to resign over Windrush. The Prime Minister and Labour leader squared off in their weekly Commons battle, with the Windrush scandal dominating. 14:19, UK, Wednesday 25 April 2018Ãâà...
New Statesman
April 26, 2018
In perhaps the most comic iteration of the exciting new genre of journalism known as Jeremy Corbyn Patriotism Watch, the Express is absolutely fuming at the fact that it took the Labour leader – who has a full-time job, y'know, leading the opposition – THREE WHOLE HOURS to respond to the news thatÃâà...
In These Times
April 26, 2018
There are more than a few “bad apples,” and Momentum itself, the movement that has grown up round Jeremy Corbyn, admits to the presence among its members of ... Jeremy Corbyn seems to have discouraged the removal of an unpleasant and anti-Semitic mural without looking properly at it. When heÃâà...
The Guardian
April 26, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn has called for the home secretary, Amber Rudd, to resign over a “cruel and misdirected” immigration policy that the Labour leader said was responsible for the hardships faced by the Windrush generation. Using all of his time at prime minister's questions to focus on Windrush for the secondÃâà...
The Week UK
April 25, 2018
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has admitted for the first time the problem and scale of anti-Semitism within his party, as he looks to draw a line under the row that has dogged his leadership and threatens to harm his party at the ballot box. See related. Tensions flare within Labour party over anti-SemitismÃâà...
BBC News
April 23, 2018
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has paid tribute to Wales' First Minister Carwyn Jones, following Mr Jones' announcement yesterday that he would be standing down in the autumn. Mr Corbyn was speaking at the Welsh Labour Conference in Llandudno. He thanked Mr Jones for his "tireless work" for Labour,Ãâà...
The Sun
April 21, 2018
STUNNED Jeremy Corbyn today hailed "the ledge" Arsene Wenger - predicting the Arsenal boss will go down in history as the club's best ever. The devoted Gooner shouted, "WHAT?! Oh my goodness!" when told the French manager is quitting after 22 years. Arsenal fan Jeremy Corbyn has spoken of hisÃâà...
New Matilda
April 21, 2018
When you're rushing to war or missile strikes or sanctions, demanding calmer heads prevail is akin to treason. Michael Brull explains. In an extraordinary piece earlier this month in the Sydney Morning Herald, star columnist and centrist-in-chief Peter Hartcher blasted British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The Sun
April 20, 2018
THE FORMER Head of the Civil Service sparked uproar after saying Theresa May's immigration policies aped the Nazis. Lord Kerslake, now an adviser to Jeremy Corbyn, said Mrs May's approach as Home Secretary was regarded by some ministers in the Coalition as “almost reminiscent of Nazi Germany”.
Telegraph.co.uk
April 20, 2018
In fact her logic in seeking to take advantage of Labour's woes and desperately poor poll ratings was eminently sensible. It was her campaigning skills and ill-thought-through manifesto that spurred her opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, forward. It's curious that such agreements on matters of hindsight take quite soÃâà...
CityMetric
April 20, 2018
It's thus difficult for me to find the right register with which to communicate the fact the speech on social housing that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gave earlier was genuinely, to my mind, good. The policies the party just proposed will cost money – but doesn't everything, and it doesn't look like crazy moneyÃâà...
The Economist
April 20, 2018
GEORGE ORWELL wrote, a little wickedly, in “The Road to Wigan Pier” that the British left acts as an irresistible magnet to cranks of every variety: fruit-juice drinkers, nudists, sandal-wearers, sex-maniacs, “nature cure” quacks, and, a particular peeve of his, pacifists. On the whole the Labour Party has doneÃâà...
The Guardian
April 18, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn's backbenchers have rounded on the failure of the party to tackle antisemitism in a blistering three hours that ended with a Labour MP calling closing remarks by the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, worthy of horror. The antisemitism debate was called by the government, a move thatÃâà...
New York Times
April 3, 2018
LONDON — After days of damaging headlines, a crisis over anti-Semitism within Britain's opposition Labour Party seemed to be fading, following reassuring statements and a contrite — if belated — apology from its leader, Jeremy Corbyn. But for his critics, actions speak louder than words, and on MondayÃâà...
Leicester Mercury
March 22, 2018
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has highlighted the financial plight of Tory-run Leicestershire County Council while tackling Theresa May over falling levels of council funding. Mr Corbyn and the Prime Minister clashed over the struggles of local authorities to balance their books while implementing steepÃâà...
The Guardian
March 22, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn: I will not be closing down my Facebook page. Social media important for conveying Labour message, says party leader during ... Jeremy Corbyn: 'There is a serious issue with data harvesting … [but] online is where it's at for a very large number of people'. Photograph: ChristopherÃâà...
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
March 21, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn's reaction to the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal has reminded Labour moderates of why they were so opposed to Corbyn in the first place. Whether this sense leads to them actually taking any concrete steps remains to be seen. But what does seem certain is that Corbyn is back toÃâà...
The Times
March 19, 2018
A campaign against Islamophobia launched in parliament by Jeremy Corbyn gave a platform to supporters of jihad, a report claims today. Islamophobia Awareness Month (Iam), which was celebrated in council buildings, universities and schools, featured extremist speakers. The campaign promoted theÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 19, 2018
The Tories are set to do better than expected in May's local elections because Jeremy Corbyn has failed to cut through outside the M25 given the Conservatives have been running the country for eight years. The Conservatives are expected to have their worst performance in London in history falling fromÃâà...
Prospect
March 19, 2018
Anthony Fisher was the man who brought battery-farming to Britain. It may have been a cruel practice, but it was a transformatively efficient one—it turned chicken from a luxury into a British staple, and made this old Etonian fabulously rich along the way. His big ideas did not stop there, however. At the endÃâà...
New Statesman
March 16, 2018
Victory to Jeremy Corbyn, then? Well, it is a sign that the leader of the opposition's office is getting better at managing these internal battles. But it's also a sign that, for the moment, Corbynite hegemony doesn't look any more inclined to be consultative than what came before. (See also: the party's BrexitÃâà...
The Economic Voice
March 16, 2018
With numerous sides having so many motives for this attack, Jeremy Corbyn may very well come out the other end of this as the man of reason, after all we have been dragged into a long and protracted war in Iraq based on very dodgy evidence before, so why are we in such a hurry to commit ourselvesÃâà...
The Sun
March 16, 2018
Labour MPs slam Jeremy Corbyn over bizarre column blaming mafia for Sergei Skripal spy poisoning and labelling UK's Russia crackdown a witch hunt. Prominent backbencher Stephen Kinnock said the Labour leader 'hasn't helped to clarify the situation' after he suggested Moscow's culpability had notÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 16, 2018
I wonder where he draws the line between the Russian authorities and gangsters. How would he define the “little green men” in Ukraine? It may seem contradictory that Mr Corbyn and Momentum should be so supportive of modern Russia which, far from being the sort of communist state that they espouse,Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 16, 2018
Today's Front Bench focuses on Jeremy Corbyn's response to the Salisbury poisoning. A sample of the email is below. If you like what you see, sign up here. Don't forget to vote in the poll and leave your reasoning in the comments below. The best responses will feature in this afternoon's Brexit Briefing.
The Guardian
March 16, 2018
'Russian authorities must be held to account on the basis of the evidence, and our response must be both decisive and proportionate' says Jeremy Corbyn. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA. Jeremy Corbyn's piece on the need for firm multilateral action to ensure the Salisbury spy poisonings neverÃâà...
BBC News
March 16, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn's warning not to "rush ahead of the evidence" over the nerve agent attack has "muddied the waters", a Labour MP has said. The UK government says the Russian state is responsible for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter. Mr Corbyn has condemned the attack but says theÃâà...
BBC News
March 15, 2018
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the "evidence points towards Russia" but does not go as far as his shadow defence secretary who said Russia was responsible for the Salisbury attack. Speaking during a trip to Carlisle, Mr Corbyn said he had asked questions about the situation during CommonsÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 15, 2018
'There are times in the affairs of our nation when the House should speak with a single, united voice. This is just such a time. The Leader of the Opposition [Michael Foot] spoke for us all. He did this nation a service when, in clear and unmistakable terms, he condemned what he called this brutal aggression.
BBC News
March 15, 2018
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the "evidence points towards Russia" but does not go as far as his shadow defence secretary who said Russia was responsible for the Salisbury attack. Speaking during a trip to Carlisle, Mr Corbyn said he had asked questions about the situation during CommonsÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
March 11, 2018
Labour's general secretary Iain McNicol quit after what he described as a "tumultuous" seven years last month. McNicol, who was appointed to the post under Ed Miliband, said he was standing down to "pursue new challenges" in the Labour movement. His departure is a further sign that Jeremy Corbyn hasÃâà...
New Statesman
March 11, 2018
It says a lot about the current state of politics that Richard Leonard felt he could make the speech he did this weekend. And it says a lot about Richard Leonard. His address to Scottish Labour's conference in Dundee was perhaps the most unabashedly left-wing I've heard from a mainstream party leader.
Telegraph.co.uk
March 11, 2018
Labour shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams has accused Jeremy Corbyn's office of bullying after she was asked to stand aside while allegations about her own behaviour are investigated. Complaints about Ms Abrahams are said to have been made by members of her staff, but she isÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 11, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn has ruled out a boycott of Russian state backed TV channel RT, after his right hand man John McDonnell called on all Labour MPs not to appear on its programmes again. Speaking yesterday Mr McDonnell said it was right for the party to rethink its attitude towards the Russian broadcasterÃâà...
The Sun
March 10, 2018
Vince Cable is set to attack Jeremy Corbyn at his party's spring conference, criticising him for failing to keep his promises on Brexit. By Ryan Sabey, Political Correspondent. 11th March 2018, 2:38 am. Updated: 11th March 2018, 2:38 am. VINCE Cable has attacked Jeremy Corbyn for “letting down” the people he claims toÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 9, 2018
Jeremy Corbyn has argued that Labour must reject full single market membership if his hard-Left socialist vision is to become a reality as his supporters were accused of using underhand tactics to quash opposition. The Labour leader told the party's Scottish conference that the UK's post-Brexit relationshipÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Jeremy Corbyn tells the House of Commons that Theresa May is accountable to the UK parliament, 'not the whims of the US president'. The prime minister defended her decision to join military strikes in Syria without first consulting parliament. Labour releases advice casting doubt on legitimacy of SyriaÃâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
A row has erupted over Jeremy Corbyn's response to Theresa May's latest statement on the poisoning of a former Russian spy. He said the attack had "appalled the country" and urged decisive action after the PM told the Commons it was "highly likely " Russia was to blame. But the Labour leader alsoÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Jeremy Corbyn said on Tuesday that Theresa May, the prime minister, should announce to Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, 32, on Wednesday that the UK would no longer supply arms to Riyadh "while the devastating Saudi-led bombing of Yemen continues". May should also "make clear Britain'sÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Rise: How Jeremy Corbyn Inspired the Young to Create a New Socialism – review ... When Jeremy Corbyn was first elected Labour leader I was editing the New Statesman's rolling politics blog, and had a small stable of semi-regular writers whom I had found – or who had found me – during the era of EdÃâà...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
That's according to British Prime Minister Theresa May, who on Wednesday accused Corbyn of "mansplaining" International Women's Day to her. Video Will Begin In... 3. Play. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter; Embed. PM May calls out opposition leader for 'mansplaining' in U.K. parliament 1:32. autoplay autoplay.
