Siobhain McDonagh, Labour, on Politics Live last year. She confirms Labour have been told to vote Tory over the SNP or they're out. Labour have made deals around Scotland with the Tories to take over various councils. She also confirms this is Starmer's doing.
Is Spain 'doomed' to unemployment? Although its job market has been breaking new records with the number of unemployed at a 15-year low, it still tops EU's unemployment rate.
Spain's 11.6% unemployment rate is far from the average for the eurozone, which stands at 6.4%, and for the 27 EU countries, at 5.9%.
For Raymond Torres, Director of International Economics at Spanish think tank Funcas, the data shows steps in the right direction.
I don’t mind #labour not campaigning to re-join the EU (I care too much for #Europe to open a revolving door) but I do want them to promise a public inquiry that comes loaded with the power to issue criminal sanction. I can, with sadness, tolerate not going back, but will never accept the possibility that a conspiracy of liars, fools and traitors can live withoutbeing held to account for their actions. #gtto#brexit
I really admire #SuzyIzzard but am disappointed that she's chosen to run for #Labour in #BrightonPavilion, Britain's only constituency with a #GreenParty MP where she's likely to spilt the progressive vote and ensure we get a Tory instead
I've recently been cataloguing the papers of Frank Wise, a Labour MP, ILP member, and civil servant who worked as Director of the Soviet Union's Trade Office Centrosoyuz in the 1920s.
Amongst his papers is this photograph of an unidentified man (it isn't Frank!)
Shettleston councillor Thomas Kerr steps into the ring, fresh from all the crying about his constituents being anti-English (which went down just as well as you'd imagine). Seems certain at this point Labour will take the seat but the pre-emptive crowing about the rest seems misguided. Justified resentment of one SNP MP is not likely to carry Labour through in other places. And if they don't get the seat it would be genuinely funny, at least.