Following his admission on the BBC’s European Election results coverage on Sunday night that he had voted Liberal Democrat, Alastair Campbell – leading remain campaigner and Tony Blair’s Director of Communications in Government – has been expelled, summarily, from the Labour Party. His offence was allegedly that he breached Labour Party rules forbidding support for […]
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Only 48 hours before polling day in the European Elections, Welsh Labour Grassroots – the self-styled “home of Momentum” in Wales – has published an extraordinary attack on Labour’s slate of candidates in Wales. WLG’s newsletter – circulated yesterday (21 May) over the signature of the WLG Secretariat, which includes Labour NEC member Darren Williams […]
A public briefing by Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre this morning set out some of the issues around the forthcoming European Elections in Wales. With a little more than two weeks to go until polling day, it emphasised the uncertainties around this election that most people expected would not happen in the UK, but also […]
The National Executive Committee of the Labour Party yesterday decided that it would be prepared to support a confirmatory vote on any deal agreed to take Britain out of the EU, but only in certain circumstances; if there was no general election, or if it failed to get the changes it wanted to the withdrawal […]
Today the Labour Party’s National Executive will be asked to vote on a draft manifesto for the EU elections to be held on 23 May. The draft has been prepared by Jeremy Corbyn’s head of policy Andrew Fisher and the most significant question is whether the NEC’s decision will reflect what appears to be the […]
In the wake of the suspension of Chris Williamson MP from the Labour Party, following comments he made that the Labour Party had been too ready to respond to accusations of antisemitism, Welsh Labour Grassroots (WLG) – the self-styled home of Momentum in Wales – has issued a statement condemning Williamson’s suspension. It describes the […]
The Observer has led today with a story that a group of Labour MP’s is looking to start a new “centre” party. It is the latest in a series of persistent rumours, that resurface from time to time as the Labour party lurches between crises. Granted, the Labour Party isn’t doing its job at the […]
