Jeremy Corbyn slams rail fare rise as “rip off” August 19, 2015 Regulated rail fares may be set to rise by just one per cent next year, but Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has called them a “rip off”, insisting only his plan to renationalise the railways will deliver savings for consumers. Speaking at a rally at Kings Cross Station yesterday, Corbyn said that “extricating the [...]
George Osborne facing pressure from UK building societies over ‘perverse’ bank surcharge August 19, 2015 The Treasury is under fire from Britain’s building societies, who say that a new tax will cost them at least £630m over the next five years – and choke off £20bn worth of lending. Mortgage lenders want the government to think again. “As you would expect the sector is positively engaging with HM Treasury,” Building [...]
EU referendum: Would the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party make Brexit more likely? August 18, 2015 Robert Oxley, campaign director of Business for Britain, says Yes You don’t have to support Jeremy Corbyn, nor agree with his views on a range of subjects, to recognise his election would make Brexit more likely. His proposal for Labour to hold a special conference to decide its response to the EU referendum is a [...]
Sadiq Khan gains backing of Neil Kinnock to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London August 18, 2015 Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has pledged his support to Sadiq Khan to become the Labour candidate for London mayor. Writing for the Mirror, Kinnock said: “Labour must recapture City Hall, and our best chance of doing that is with Sadiq Khan as our candidate for London mayor in 2016.” Read more: Meet London mayor [...]
Did Sadiq Khan just become the new front-runner for Mayor of London? August 18, 2015 Labour mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan has received a massive boost thanks to a new Survation poll showing he would beat Conservative front-runner Zac Goldsmith in a head-to-head race for City Hall. When Survation asked 1,000 Londoners if they would vote for Khan, Goldsmith or “another party’s candidate”, a surprising 50 per cent said they would [...]
Poll: Tory MPs would cheer Corbyn victory August 18, 2015 The #Tories for Corbyn movement may have found more supporters – on the Conservative backbenches. More than half of Tory backbench MPs would “cheer” the election of the left-wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, according to a new poll out today from Maitland, a communications firm. Maitland polled 89 backbench MPs earlier this month, [...]
Nationwide attacks bank surcharge, accusing George Osborne of targeting building societies August 18, 2015 Britain’s second largest mortgage lender has said chancellor George Osborne’s new bank tax will cost it £300m over the next five years. The move by Osborne to replace the bank levy with a surcharge will “disproportionately” hit building societies, Nationwide chief executive has Graham Beale said. Osborne announced in the July Budget that the annual [...]
Labour leadership race: Jeremy Corbyn and Andy Burnham pledge to work together while Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham tell each other to withdraw from the contest August 18, 2015 Is there a bromance blossoming among Labour leadership candidates? After Andy Burnham used a speech to praise Jeremy Corbyn and offer him a role in "rebuilding" the party, Corbyn has said he could work with Burnham, too. Speaking to BBC's Newsnight, Corbyn said: “Obviously there has to be a party of all the talents and [...]
As the first Labour leadership votes are cast, should Tories celebrate Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity? August 17, 2015 Laura Swire, director of Hanover Communications, says Yes If we can agree that the point of politics is to gain power and effect change, then we can agree that the Conservatives should be celebrating Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity. He would be a noisy Opposition leader, but never Prime Minister. Under Corbyn, Labour will be arguing for [...]
Labour leadership race: Former foreign secretary David Miliband pledges support to Liz Kendall while warning of the risks of electing Jeremy Corbyn August 17, 2015 Former Labour frontbencher David Miliband has pledged his support to Liz Kendall in the Labour leadership contest. Writing in the Guardian, Miliband said he has been “struck since the beginning of the campaign by the plain speaking, fresh thinking and political courage of Liz Kendall and the new generation of politicians – Chuka Umunna, Emma [...]
