Labour’s former shadow chancellor has suggested leader Sir Keir Starmer was acting like a monarch in a rift over the party’s policy on electoral reform. John McDonnell is backing a proposed change to Labour’s position on the UK’s voting system. At Labour’s conference, he said policy decisions were taken democratically and “no-one is above that”. But Sir...
Keir Starmer has said Labour will launch Great British Energy, a publicly owned energy company run on clean UK power, in its first year of government, saying the party will “fight the Tories on economic growth”. In his speech at the Labour conference in Liverpool, Starmer said the largest onshore wind farm in Wales was owned by Sweden, China had a stake in the UK nuclear industry, and millions of...
Keir Starmer has called on the Conservatives to sack their co-chair, Ben Elliot, for being “at the heart” of links between the party and Russian money. The Labour leader said Elliot should step back from his role or be removed after revelations about his firm’s Russian business and the Tories accepting donations from wealthy Russians or companies linked to Russia. Elliot has been chair of the...