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Voices: Are suspended Labour MPs undisciplined? Readers have their say
Our community was sharply divided on the suspensions. While some defended Keir Starmer’s need for party discipline in ...
UK Labour suspends four lawmakers over welfare rebellion
Britain's Labour Party suspended four of its lawmakers on Wednesday for organising plans to vote against the government over ...
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U.K.’s Labour Party Looks To Shore Up its Dwindling Electoral Odds by Lowering Voting Age to 16
The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’ ...
What would it take for a new British leftwing party to succeed?
One recent poll on support for a hypothetical Corbyn-led party – which we should take with some salt – found that its 10% ...
What happened the last time a Labour government opted to lower the voting age?
There are parallels between the political conditions which faced Harold Wilson and Sir Keir Starmer’s current challenges.
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Labour giving under-18s right to vote is profoundly wrong and the reason is really simple
WHEN polling day dawns at the next general election, some 1.6million new voters will have been added to the electoral rolls. Hundreds of thousands of bright-eyed 16 and 17-year-olds will be ...
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Reform spent just £5.5m on the 2024 election, while Labour’s majority cost £30m – new data
The real winners in 2024 though, certainly in terms of bang for their respective bucks, are Reform and the Lib Dems, both of ...
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Labour position ‘hopelessly confused’ on giving vote to 16-year-olds
Paul Holmes asked in the Commons why the Government plans to lower the voting age while 16 and 17-year-olds are not allowed ...