After a disastrous set of local elections for the government earlier this month, an increasing number of backbench Labour MPs have been warning the government to change course not only on the ...

Starmer grilled by senior MPs amid growing Labour ... members of the committee are former Conservative cabinet minister Steve Barclay, and chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench ...

On paper, Sir Keir Starmer has a rock-solid working majority of 165 seats. In reality, it could crumble more easily than ...

As Labour’s Diane Abbott was re-elected in Hackney North and Stoke Newington, she now becomes the “Mother of the House” – an honorary title given to the longest-serving female MP.

A new photo of the Labour Party has put the Tories’ electoral defeat in another, rather unflattering light. All of the female MPs elected for Labour gathered for a historic image in Westminster ...

For many Labour MPs, one of the core tests of their government will be getting that figure – 31 per cent, representing 4.5 million children – down. Instead, they read the dry words of their ...

PRIME Minister Sir Keir Starmer is struggling to keep the lid on a mounting rebellion among backbench Labour MPs over his planned attack on welfare. Dozens of MPs are not buying his argument that ...

But it isn't. It's a despairing message from a new Labour MP, elected in last year's general election landslide. Labour had a terrible night when many of the county council seats up for grabs in ...

But critical MPs have complained that the reps had been prepared to accept the rule changes without a fight. A left-wing backbench Labour MP elected before 2024 said: “Parliamentary committee ...

The UK's longest-serving male and female MPs have united to oppose ... The bill has been proposed by backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who argued it would help stop people experiencing "very ...

Rachel Reeves has become Britain's first ever female Chancellor after Labour's historic General Election win. After 14 years as an MP in Opposition, she will now step into Government and is set to ...