We failed.". After being re-elected in Leeds Central with a reduced majority, Hilary Benn, the Labour MP told the BBC: "I thought that was a very dignified speech from Jeremy and he's announced that he won't be leading us into a future general election.

“I sense a regression, and going back actually to some pretty old fashioned ideas.”.

The family is often seen as the political territory of the right.

"Both are to blame for what looks like a terrible night for Labour.

What we have delivered is a majority Tory government.

To say otherwise is delusional.”, Mr Wilson added: “The party’s leadership went down like a lead balloon on the doorstep. For more information read our Privacy Policy. Or Rachel Reeves? Surely, if the exit poll is right, he couldn't continue as Labour leader. Labour’s red wall suffered another humiliating breach in the West Midlands when it lost West Bromwich East to the Conservatives for the first time, Patrick Sawer writes.

Since 1935 Bishop Auckland has been a stronghold for Labour, until tonight. Mr Campbell said: “Are they though? Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, held her seat in Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, but her majority fell from from 14,499 to 1,276. Are we in the final 24 hours of Corbyn's leadership?

As with many Labour MPs on a range of issues, it’s unclear what Reeves really thinks. A senior Russian politician said today that allegations that Russia tried to meddle in the 2019 General Election are "anti-Russian nonsense" which undermine UK-Russia relations and the UK's own authority.

Even in these rarefied times, Boris Johnson did his bit and thanked Mr Corbyn for his service. The online forum Reddit confirmed the leak was linked to the Kremlin in December last year.

The supermarket shelves are empty, the investment banks have sent everyone home, the state has taken over the private sector and is paying everybody’s wages and the only people who aren’t going to get sacked at the end of it all are the ones who work for the NHS. Watson clearly knew this himself, which is why he chose to exit politics just months ahead of the 2019 election – after which the Tories picked up his constituency for the first time since it was formed in 1974. Career: Starting his career as a barrister in 1987, Starmer was promoted to Queen’s Counsel in 2002, and was joint head of his chambers, Doughty Street Chambers. She returned to the front benches in 2016. For obvious reasons this was also, at various points, his strength.

During a 2018 GQ interview with the party’s current business secretary, Ed Miliband, he branded Mr Corbyn’s policies as “brilliant spin” but nothing more.

Rebecca Long-Bailey, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn and widely seen as a contender to be the next leader of the Labour Party, was re-elected as MP for Salford and Eccles.

JEREMY Corbyn today doubled down on exploiting leaked documents that the Government said helped Russians to interfere in last year's General Election.

Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP who has been a fierce critic of Jeremy Corbyn, particularly over the party's handling of its anti-Semitism crisis, said: "Corbyn talking about a period of 'reflection'. Why the appeal to a slogan which, at the last election, she would have opposed as simplistic?

Meanwhile, Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, signalled she could also mount her own leadership bid, as she issued a rallying call to activists in her seat of Islington South and Finsbury Park. Ian Murray could be the only Labour MP in Scotland by the end of the night and he has called on Jeremy Corbyn to go. Well… have we mentioned the free broadband?

Or Rachel Reeves?

Recent elections have seen party leaders step down when their party is defeated. newspaper archive.

, or simply meaning they were secret Brexiteers. “I think basically what he needs to do is take a long hard look at himself and not just himself but what he’s allowed to happen to the Labour Party and that’s a decision to him.”. The great man leaves a legacy the likes of which have never been seen. I say this not to relitigate past battles – these are over and the Tories have prevailed in the post 2008 conjuncture – but to highlight a deep-seated mendacity at odds with any hope of re-energising a mass, socialist politics in this country.

Ms Powell, who was elected at a by-election in Manchester Central in 2012, told ITV: "I don't think that just blaming just on Jeremy or just on Brexit or just on something else, I don't think that will serve us well at all in the long run. “We hoped a wider range of issues would cut through and we’d have a debate, but that hasn’t happened.”, Asked about Mr Corbyn’s political future, Mr McDonnell said: “We’ll always make the decisions in the best interests of our party.”, But Phil Wilson, the ex-Labour MP for Sedgefield dismissed the leadership’s Brexit excuses as “mendacious nonsense” adding: “Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was a bigger problem. Richard Burgon, Labour's shadow justice secretary, has told the BBC that Corbyn's likely defeat is due to the "right-wing newspapers" who have done "a very good job of making people think Jeremy Corbyn, a very decent man, is a threat to security".

The Labour leader last night called for a “process of reflection” following the crushing defeat, which is now expected to be the worst since Michael Foot led the party to disaster in 1983. Hospital admissions are rising. "We will resist Johnson's attempt to destroy our NHS.

The celestial parodists in charge of our little lives are frankly phoning it in.

Had Watson gotten his wish, he would have undoubtedly lost his seat at the next time of asking.

"Sorry we couldn't give you a Labour Party you could trust. “What I do know is that if we just think this is just some personality contest at the top of the party, that that's going to be the answer to rescue the single greatest vehicle for social change, then we will inevitably end up in a poor situation,” she told ITV.

Labour’s campaign focused heavily on domestic issues, particularly around the NHS and social justice, while Brexit took a back seat. One suspects such flagrant editorialising won’t happen with Corbyn’s successor.

Labour has ordered members of the shadow cabinet and other MPs to blame the party's predicted heavy defeat on Boris Johnson's "smear and fear" campaign, reports Bill Gardner. We must now reflect; but we must also rebuild.". Labour in turmoil: party faces wave of legal action [INSIGHT]Jeremy Corbyn faces demand to return cash in legal battle [REPORT]Labour anti-Semitism whistleblowers demand Corbyn be expelled [ANALYSIS].

US secretary of state’s East Asia visit is expected to focus heavily on China and North Korea. The event was originally supposed …

We, of course, knew this was going to be a challenging election, with Brexit at the forefront of many people’s minds and our country increasingly polarised.

Jeremy Corbyn was once a high-profile opponent of nuclear power – what happened?

Had Watson gotten his wish, he would have undoubtedly lost his seat at the next time of asking. "This is not a normal election for a whole myriad of reasons.

Postal votes are sent to voters, who rank candidates in order of preference. Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, Jeremy Corbyn today refused to answer any questions on the bombshell claims the Russians were involved in trying to influence UK elections, The ex-Labour boss - returning from a bike ride - didn't take any questions, The Labour leader had tried to use the leaked NHS documents to smear the Tories, The Labour leader was branded a "foolish pawn" for using them, Putin's Russia dismissed the claims today, a Russian unit linked to the state's intelligence service for trying to steal UK, US and Canada's coronavirus vaccine research, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), A criminal investigation is taking place to find those who leaked the documents, A series of documents were put online but Russian actors were involved in trying to get it more traction, More sanctions were threatened in response to the news, A group called APT29 linked to Russian intelligence services is behind a series of coordinated attacks to try and steal UK vaccines, UK security services are "almost certain" the attacks were sponsored by Russia - and President Putin knew about them, Vaccine research programs are being given the highest level of protection to protect data on coronavirus jabs, The same group has been linked to attacks on US Democratic Party in the run-up to 2016 elections, The group are trying to exploit known vulnerabilities in well known security software such as VPN software & external mail servers. When talking about the sectarianism that had become a feature of the party, he said: “There’s nastiness coming back in the Labour Party which they like to say is down to people like me, which it’s not.

"It's unquestionable that Labour's policies are popular.

"The Tories want to distract from the damage a Trump trade deal would do to our NHS by continuing to push the bogus claim Labour received Russian support.

The former Labour leader's majority has been cut to 2,370 from 14,024. Labour managed 16,312 votes to the Conservatives' 20,488 - a majority of 4,176 and the first time Workington will be represented by a Tory in its history, going back to 1918. Tributes to Corbyn-supporting academic David Graeber, who dies aged 59 Jewish News 10:35 8-Sep-20. “I don’t actually believe that it added up to a coherent plan.”.

Will we proceed to hear allegations that they secretly voted Leave four years ago for merely accepting a result which prevailed with a majority of more than a million?

Mark Jenkinson gained the constituency for the Conservatives from Labour's Sue Hayman. But all this is very unfair.

I've been saying this for years.

But with child poverty skyrocketing and families forced into increasingly abysmal living conditions, it’s right that Starmer wishes to reclaim it. We will build a Britain for the many, not the few.".

"But in this election we were squeezed by Brexit and it was the defining issue. Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, sets out why.

Quote: “Standing on the sidelines looking for the purest ideology is a dereliction of the duty for any Labour member.” (July 2016). Last week, Labour made the move to apologise and pay “substantial damages” to seven former party workers who turned whistleblowers over anti-semitism in a Panorama documentary. It's only a poll, yes.

This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. The PM's official spokesman said today: "The attacks which are taking place against scientists and others doing vital work to combat coronavirus are despicable. In March last year Mr Corbyn sparked a furious backlash after warning Theresa May against “rushing way ahead of the evidence” on Salisbury. It's looking bleak for the Labour leader.

A spokesman said: “We condemn any attempt by Russia..to interfere in our country’s democratic processes. However, since taking over as leader he has set a rather different tone. Our fight is not over our fight is just starting and we will show the same spirit that we showed throughout the election campaign.”. I've reflected. He won the seat last time with a  majority of 3,897. Pretty damning language here from one of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour candidates. After 2017 Labour stood on the brink of power. How did that happen? Now we have seen the truth: Betrayal is when an in-credible, sectarian Labour opposition fails to provide a viable alternative to a distrusted Tory party. that there should be a second referendum “with Remain on the ballot”, adding she would campaign thereafter for Britain to remain in the EU “for jobs, investment and our NHS”.

“But, I think actually it’s this hard-left quality that’s coming back in.”. "And I will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future.". To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Yes, people might not be on top of every policy debate, but they can’t stand hypocrisy.