Jeremy Corbyn allies plot to oust 50 Labour MPs

Secret hitlist of moderates for deselection Up to 50 Labour MPs are on a deselection hitlist drawn up by left-wing supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, it has been claimed. Moderate Labour MPs have been warned that Corbyn’s allies want centrist candidates … Continue reading →

Hilary Benn interview: We can’t rest until divisions of opportunity in city are healed

He is playing a central role in the scrutiny of the fraught Brexit process, but Leeds Central MP Hilary Benn is also focused on issues closer to home. Political Editor Rob Parsons reports. WHILE most of his Parliamentary colleagues were … Continue reading →

Labour concern at likely local election losses

Burnham warning as Labour faces heavy local election losses Labour must reconnect in the north or face “serious consequences”, Andy Burnham has said, with the party forecast to lose more than 100 seats in next week’s council elections. The Greater … Continue reading →

Peter Edwards: Plotting against Hilary Benn will undermine Labour

I AM “a Benn, not a Bennite”, Hilary Benn famously declared when he fought the Leeds Central by-election that brought him to the Commons in 1999. He is, and he isn’t, as we soon learnt, with the son of Tony … Continue reading →

Call for Labour moderates to organise following Leeds Central ‘takeover’

MODERATE LABOUR activists have been urged to organise to avoid a repeat of the takeover of Hilary Benn’s Leeds Central constituency party by backers of leader Jeremy Corbyn. A newsletter from the Labour First group has hailed the success of … Continue reading →

Corbyn backers take control of Benn’s party in Leeds

ONE of Yorkshire’s most senior Labour MPs is on a collision course with his local party after a “takeover” by supporters of leader Jeremy Corbyn. Political allies of Hilary Benn, the former shadow foreign secretary, have expressed concern about his … Continue reading →

Hilary Benn and Yvette Cooper win select committee chair elections

MPs have elected Labour’s Hilary Benn to lead a new cross-party select committee which will scrutinise Brexit. Mr Benn, who backed Remain in the EU referendum, beat Leave campaigner Kate Hoey to the job. In other contests, Labour’s Yvette Cooper … Continue reading →

Letters lift lid on Benn’s concern at rebuilding post-war Iraq

CONCERN over the pace of rebuilding war-torn Iraq was raised by then international development secretary Hilary Benn just 18 months after the conflict had begun, documents released alongside the Chilcot report reveal. Leeds Central MP Mr Benn told Tony Blair … Continue reading →

Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn under pressure amid top team revolt

A string of Labour shadow cabinet members have quit, with more walkouts expected, in protest at Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership over the EU referendum. Heidi Alexander, Ian Murray, Gloria de Piero, Lillian Greenwood, Lucy Powell, Kerry McCarthy and Seema Malhotra quit. … Continue reading →

PLP goes to war against Jeremy Corbyn

Shadow cabinet in Corbyn coup plot Jeremy Corbyn faces the threat of shadow cabinet resignations unless he resigns as Labour leader this week, amid mounting anger over his failure to campaign harder against Brexit. A shadow cabinet source claimed: “He … Continue reading →