Candidates are gearing up to replace Angela Rayner as deputy leader of the Labour Party, following her resignation over the stamp-duty scandal. The hopefuls have now been narrowed down to just Bridget ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The question of whether Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham should stand in an upcoming by-election "should be up to Andy and ...

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson and former Commons leader Lucy Powell look set for a showdown for Labour's deputy leadership, after the only other remaining candidate failed to get enough ...

Lucy Powell has issued a major challenge to Sir Keir Starmer’s authority, insisting that she will push the prime minister to reconsider the direction of the party in a bid to rescue Labour from its ...

The fallout from the Peter Mandelson controversy continues.

Among them are former DPM Angela Rayner, health secretary Wes Streeting and greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Labour activists have been referred to police over a by-election gala dinner. The Labour Party event, was reported for allegedly bribing voters in the Gorton and Denton by-election with free dinners.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer was urged not to ape the policies of Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK at a hustings for the Labour Party’s deputy leader contest that exposed its fragile unity. “Being ...

MANCHESTER, England (CN) — Against the backdrop of an unpopular prime minister and the specter of a rising far right, Lucy Powell’s victory as deputy leader marks a shift for the U.K.’s ruling Labour ...

Lucy Powell, Labour’s new deputy leader, said the UK government should stand by its election pledges in a sign of growing disquiet within the ruling party that Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel ...