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    Labour’s right wing has launched a new plan to rein in Jeremy Corbyn’s power despite his growing standing within the party following the general election result, The Independent can reveal. The battle plan, issued to activists just a week after Labour overturned Theresa May’s majority, would water down Mr Corbyn’s influence on the party’s powerful executive by drafting in extra members likely to be hostile to him. The manoeuvre is the latest sign of the continuing guerrilla warfare taking place behind the scenes in Labour, with Mr Corbyn’s own supporters undertaking a counteroffensive to try and cement the left’s grip on the party. The competing plans set the scene for a major showdown at this year’s annual conference in Brighton, where the struggle for the heart of the pa...

    A placard at an anti-austerity march in London on Saturday. Theresa May is facing a chorus of Tory demands for a radical overhaul of state funding for public services as cabinet ministers and senior Conservative MPs back higher pay for millions of NHS workers, more cash for schools and a national debate on student debt. The prime minister’s waning authority was highlighted as her health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and education secretary Justine Greening lobbied for an easing of austerity and senior Conservative MPs insisted public services would be in growing peril without an urgent loosening of the purse strings. Separately, Damian Green, the de facto deputy prime minister and a May loyalist, hinted at a wider rethink when he said there might need to be a national debate abo...

    The victim of an acid attack in London has said that if it happened to a white person, it’d be all over the news. Jameel Muhktar and his cousin Resham Khan were left with life-changing injuries when a man threw acid through their car window as they sat in traffic in Newham, London. Muhktar spoke out about the incident for the first time yesterday in an interview with Channel 4 News, calling the attack a hate crime. I honestly feel that if this was a white person that got attacked by an Asian person he’d be caught within 24 hours. It’d be all over the news, there’d be a national manhunt, Muhktar told Channel 4 News yesterday. I believe it’s something to do with Islamophobia. I’ve never seen this guy in my life. I don’t have any problems with anybody. My cousin is 21, she’s ...

    Theresa May’s absolutist stance on Britain leaving the jurisdiction of the European court of justice has hamstrung David Davis in negotiations with Brussels, according to the Brexit secretary’s former chief of staff. James Chapman, who worked for George Osborne before serving as Davis’s chief of staff until shortly before the election, said May’s insistence that the ECJ must not have oversight once Britain leaves the EU, revealed in her party conference speech last year, had made the negotiators’ task more difficult. She’s taken some absolutist positions on particular issues – I’m thinking of the European court of justice, he told the BBC’s Week in Westminster. She’s set a red line effectively for a conference speech that hamstrung these negotiations in my view, said Chapm...