LONDON, Oct 9 — US star Taylor Swift got a special police escort for her London concerts after an alleged suicide attack plot led to the cancellation of three performances in Vienna. Culture Minister Lisa Nandy denied the singer was given preferential treatment, after reports she had a motorbike escort …
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Labour leadership candidate Emily Thornberry has denied “sneering” at Brexit voters. The shadow foreign secretary was confronted in a TV interview with Andrew Neil with a video in which she appeared to laugh as a fellow Labour frontbencher said that people who did not hate Brexit “have something wrong with …
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Lisa Nandy has said she would maintain key pledges from Labour’s election manifesto, including the abolition of university of tuition fees and the denationalisation of Royal Mail. In her first major television interview, the Wigan MP, one of five contenders vying to replace Jeremy Corbyn, also said she opposed a …
Read More »Labour leadership hopefuls and their supporters are wooing union executive members as they seek to make the final ballot which will decide who will lead the party. Representatives of the five remaining candidates – Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy, Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry and Jess Phillips – have approached general …
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