Category: News
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Rebel Labour MPs rally behind Andy Burnham as Keir Starmer faces leadership challenge | LBC The UK Prime Minister has given up (again). After 23 months as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer officially resigned on 22nd June 2026, triggering a scramble for leadership from Labour MPs. Despite describing his government as a “10 year project of…
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Image Credit: NY Times and The Mirror The UK is in the (swelteringly) hot seat; our government’s actions now will shape our future on this, our only home! The recent heatwave sweeping across Europe has shattered records across the continent. The sizzling35.1C recorded at Kew Gardens set a temperature record for May, breaking the long-held title…
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Image credit: Palace of Westminster, Wikimedia Commons A teacher, a warehouse worker, and an MP walk into a bar. Only two of them are liable to criticism, apparently. Newly elected Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer has recently come under fire from MPs after exposing a drinking culture within Parliament. The Green MP questioned Keir Starmer…
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Image credit: https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/how-farage-rakes-in-his-riches-mandrake/ Nigel Farage, the supposed anti-establishment outsider, is facing a standards probe into a £5 million personal gift he received from a Thai-based crypto billionaire in 2024. This eye-watering sum of money, given before the MP for Clacton had announced his parliamentary campaign, mysteriously did not appear on his register of interests. Instead, Farage…
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Image credit: Welsh government What should we do when the unthinkable happens? The 7th of May elections in Wales and Scotland pose many such questions, one that the Labour Party must now answer following their historic loss of the Welsh parliament for the first time since the successful devolution referendum in 1997. This was an abject failure…
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A couple of months ago I wrote a piece discussing the state of Labour and their time in office. Safe to say, it wasn’t the most glowing of reviews. The local elections that happened last week suggest that the public agrees with me – but only somewhat. Labour has not been punished as much as…
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Image credit: BBC When George Finch assumed the position of leading Warwickshire County Council in July 2025, he asked to be judged by his actions as leader. Given the double whammy of both his young age and politics as a Reform member whipping up a storm of prejudice against him, this was not the most…
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Image credits: Wikimedia Commons The Gorton and Denton byelection was destined to be significant. A Labour heartland in Manchester, with students and graduates, white working-class voters inthe remains of a declining industrial base, and a significant Muslim population – amicrocosm of Labour’s key supporters in 2024. It should have been a forgone conclusion – yet,…
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Pictured: Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul Image credits: Wikimedia Commons [edited] Often in politics, we have a burning desire to ensure that we elect people who are both genuine, and dependable when it counts. The caricature of the establishment pawn, of barking loudly without any bite, is all too engrained in our minds. This uncertainty…
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Image credits: RawPixel “We have just days to stop Reform and make hope normal again” are the words of Hannah Spencer, the Mancunian plumber, councillor, and now Green Party candidate for the byelection in Gorton and Denton. She was selected by her local party members last Thursday to fight for the former seat of ex-Labour…