Remainers sabotage Tory conference: Gathering in Manchester is thrown into chaos as Jeremy Corbyn says he WON’T let Commons go into recess Parliament is resuming sitting after judges ruled PM’s prorogation was illegal Commons business could lay waste to Tory conference in Manchester next week Jeremy Corbyn dismissed the idea …
Read More »Vince Cable: Former Lib Dem leader to stand down at next general election
Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable is to step down as an MP at the next election, the party has announced. The news will spark a scramble for Cable’s Twickenham seat, with newly-defected Lib Dem MPs Chuka Umunna and Sarah Wollaston thought likely to be at the head of …
Read More »little bosses’ party elects eager pro-austerity leader
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1051/29400 From The Socialist newspaper, 31 July 2019 New Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, photo by David Spender/CC (Click to enlarge) James Ivens, East London Socialist Party The Liberal Democrats, Britain’s most shopworn and undeservingly smug little bosses’ party, have elected a new leader. Jo Swinson …
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