Day: December 4, 2015

    Corbyn condemns 'bullying' of Labour MPs who support bombing IS Jeremy Corbyn has condemned bullying towards Labour MPs who support bombing in Syria. As MPs held a marathon ten hour debate to discuss escalating the UK's involvement in the fight against ISIS, the Labour leader to Facebook to declare any such behaviour unacceptable. He said politics is about passion, values and principles", but that he wanted the debate to be conducted in a "comradely fashion. He went on: Over recent days I have received a number of reports that there have been some incidents where Labour Party members and MPs have been abused. He said the Prime Minister took part in similar abuse, when he reportedly declared anyone who would vote against action "terrorist sympathisers" in a private meeting ...

    Jim McMahon defeats Ukip challenge with massive majority in first poll test of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership Labour has comfortably won its first parliamentary by-election since Jeremy Corbyn became leader, storming ahead of Ukip by 10,835 votes in Oldham West and Royton in Greater Manchester. Jim McMahon, the 35-year-old leader of Oldham council, will swap the town hall for Westminster after persuading 17,322 people to vote for him. Turnout was 40.26% – not an embarrassment on a very rainy Thursday in December. Ukip’s John Bickley, a Cheshire-based businessman, was runner-up, on 6,487. It was his fourth second place in Greater Manchester in less than two years, having lost out to Labour in byelections in Wythenshawe and Sale East in February 2014 and Heywood and Middl...