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During his campaign for the Labour leadership, Jeremy Corbyn had claimed that £120bn could be recovered from tax avoidance and evasion, which he said would be enough to pay off the UK’s deficit without having to make welfare and public spending cuts. “Working...

‘There is a need for the political leaders to explain some of this as well and be, not courageous enough is the wrong word, but to be confident in the argument that they’re making and explain it but you know if you pick back over every single thing somebody has said,...

Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn and shadow justice secretary Lord Falconer have both spoken out against abandoning the UK’s nuclear capability, and Mr Corbyn said: “We are going to come to an accommodation of some sort”. For six decades, British governments...

Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, said his main focus was on safeguarding the jobs of members in the defence industry, as Labour prepares to confront an issue that is splitting the shadow cabinet.

Former leadership contender Chuka Umunna, who ruled himself out of serving in the shadow cabinet under Mr Corbyn, said: “It’s not plausible for us as an opposition not to have a position on the defence of the realm”.

John McDonnell, who was one of new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s first appointments, will set out today in a speech to the Labour party conference in Brighton how some of the country’s financial institutions are not “fit for purpose”.

John McDonnell looks set to use his first Labour conference speech as shadow chancellor to push for a “Robin Hood” tax on stock market trading.

Corbyn had faced criticism for appointing McDonnell, a critic of Bank of England independence, as his economic spokesman.

Labour councillor Anayat Mohammed, who represents Spring Gardens and Utley ward, was among the group present at Westminster earlier this month when Jeremy Corbyn faced David Cameron.

Labour’s new shadow equalities minister has rounded on her new boss – calling Jeremy Corbyn’s actions “offensive and hurtful” just days after she was appointed.

Welsh Labour has escaped the fate of the Scottish party and finding out why that’s been the case is the reason she’s made meeting Carwyn Jones an early priority.

The new Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale had suggested on Sunday that Labour MSPs could be free to campaign for independence, while insisting that “I cannot accept that there will automatically and inevitably be another referendum on independence”. People clearly...

The chair of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) group, Joan Ryan MP, reportedly issued an invitation to Corbyn to address a reception to be held at the party’s annual conference next week, against the backdrop of concern from the Jewish community in the United Kingdom over...

Mr David said: “I am pleased to be playing a full and leading role in both scrutinising and opposing Government policy, while helping to develop Labour’s policies in key areas”.

He is correct that many on the right of the Labour Party – and the Blairites in particular – are deeply unhappy, but he may well be wrong in thinking the Lib Dems will be the main beneficiaries.