UK's Labour suspends lawmaker Diane Abbott
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Free Malaysia Today on MSNUK’s Labour suspends veteran left-wing MP over antisemitismLONDON: Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has suspended a veteran left-wing member of parliament and launched an investigation into comments she made about anti-Jewish racism, the latest in a spate of ill-discipline dogging the British prime minister.
Diane Abbott’s removal deepens tensions within Labour’s left flank, with allies viewing it as part of broader purge of dissenting voices - Anadolu Ajansı
The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’
One recent poll on support for a hypothetical Corbyn-led party – which we should take with some salt – found that its 10% support comes partly from eating into the Green vote. An electoral arrangement with the Greens, on the other hand, may require shared policy platforms, raising the question of why a separate party is needed.
There are parallels between the political conditions which faced Harold Wilson and Sir Keir Starmer’s current challenges.
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Our community was sharply divided on the suspensions. While some defended Keir Starmer’s need for party discipline in government, others felt his approach revealed a weakness
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
Paul Holmes asked in the Commons why the Government plans to lower the voting age while 16 and 17-year-olds are not allowed to buy lottery tickets or alcohol.