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UK's Labour suspends lawmaker Diane Abbott again over race remark
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party suspended Diane Abbott, the country's longest-serving female lawmaker, on ...
The 9 seats Labour will 'steal from Reform' by allowing 16-year-olds to vote
It's estimated that the move to allow 16-year-olds the vote will mean there will be around 1.35 million new voters. Labour will benefit from over 200,000 new voters while Reform would secure around 40 ...
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UK’s first Black female MP suspended again as Labour cracks down on dissent
Diane Abbott’s removal deepens tensions within Labour’s left flank, with allies viewing it as part of broader purge of ...
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U.K.’s Labour Party Looks To Shore Up its Dwindling Electoral Odds by Lowering Voting Age to 16
The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’ ...
What would it take for a new British leftwing party to succeed?
One recent poll on support for a hypothetical Corbyn-led party – which we should take with some salt – found that its 10% ...
What happened the last time a Labour government opted to lower the voting age?
There are parallels between the political conditions which faced Harold Wilson and Sir Keir Starmer’s current challenges.
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Labour giving under-18s right to vote is profoundly wrong and the reason is really simple
WHEN polling day dawns at the next general election, some 1.6million new voters will have been added to the electoral rolls. Hundreds of thousands of bright-eyed 16 and 17-year-olds will be ...
Chinese car brands blocked by Labour from £650m electric vehicle grant
Labour are rumoured to be on the verge of blocking Chinese electric vehicles from a new £650 million grant scheme. In response, Beijing has issued a stern warning to the Labour Party government, with ...