Richard Burgon
10 results

Five make it through to next round of Labour leadership contest
- UK
- January 13, 2020, 14:56
Five candidates have won enough support from Labour MPs to enter the second round in a three-stage contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. (...)

Jeremy Corbyn blames himself, Brexit and the media for Labour defeat
- UK
- December 18, 2019, 09:59
Jeremy Corbyn has faced furious MPs at a fractious meeting of the parliamentary Labour Party in Westminster in which he told them he took “responsibil(...)

UK election: Who could be the next leader of the Labour Party?
- UK
- December 15, 2019, 16:33
Yvette Cooper Yvette Cooper ran against Corbyn for the leadership in 2015 and is viewed as a centrist. Therefore, she would be likely to face an up-h(...)

Labour faces new battle for soul of party after election disaster
- UK
- December 13, 2019, 21:53
Jeremy Corbyn announced he would not lead Labour into the next election after losing a swath of seats in the party’s northern heartlands to the Tories(...)

Iran warns UK against escalating tensions, says crew of seized ship safe
- World
- July 21, 2019, 11:22
Iran on Sunday urged Britain to contain “domestic political forces” intent on escalating tensions between the two countries following Iran’s seizure o(...)

UK request to delay Brexit would be ‘shameful’, Boris Johnson says
- UK
- January 18, 2019, 07:09
Former UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said it would be “shameful” for Theresa May’s g overnment to request an extension to the Article 50 proc(...)

Former Leeds player Paul Madeley dies aged 73
- English Soccer
- July 24, 2018, 12:07
Former Leeds player Paul Madeley has died at the age of 73, the club have announced. Madeley spent his entire 17-year career with the West Yorkshire (...)

Birmingham bombs: Details of knowledge on IRA threat wanted
- Irish News
- January 27, 2017, 15:02
Families of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974 want forthcoming inquests to shed light on what intelligence services knew about the IR(...)

Conservative MP quits over Theresa May’s handling of Brexit
- UK
- November 4, 2016, 19:07
Theresa May faces a Brexit byelection after Conservative MP Stephen Phillips resigned his seat in protest against her handling of the process of leavi(...)

Polly Toynbee: Labour goes to war as the Tories close ranks
- Opinion
- July 12, 2016, 13:41
There she stands, the new prime minister , so unassailable that her final opponent melted away . Even her party’s most rabid Brexiters crumpled. There(...)