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Yesterday's taxi explosion in Liverpool, England, that killed the bomber and injured the driver outside the Liverpool Women's Hospital, is declared a terrorist incident by police. Mayor Joanne Anderson says that the driver locked the bomber inside the vehicle after noticing that the bomber was wearing an explosive device.
2021-11-15

Shadow Treasury Minister Clive Lewis announces his candidacy to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party. He is the second person to make this announcement, after Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry.
2019-12-19

British MP Ian Austin quits Labour over a "culture of extremism, anti-semitism and intolerance" within the party under Jeremy Corbyn, becoming the ninth Labour MP to quit this week. However, unlike the others, he will not be joining The Independent Group.
2019-02-22

Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone is suspended by the Labour Party for claiming that Adolf Hitler was a Zionist.
2016-04-28

Prime Minister David Cameron meets with Queen Elizabeth II to get permission to form a new administration of government, while Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, respectively the leaders of Labour, the Liberal Democrats and UKIP, resign their positions.
2015-05-8

"The Sun" newspaper apologizes for accessing private information on a stolen mobile phone belonging to Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh.
2013-03-18

The counting of votes in UK local elections continues with the Labour Party making gains and the Liberal Democrats losing seats.
2011-05-6

The British Labour Party retains the seat of Barnsley Central following a by-election. The Lib Dems, who had come second at the 2010 general election slump to sixth place behind the British National Party and UKIP.
2011-03-4

Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the British Labour Party, issues an apology for branding Danny Alexander, a member of the British Government, a "ginger rodent". Mr Alexander tweets in response: "I am proud to be ginger and rodents do valuable work cleaning up mess others leave behind".
2010-10-30

Ed Miliband, the new leader of the UK's Labour Party, makes his first major speech at the party's Annual Conference in Manchester telling delegates that his "new generation" will return the party to power.
2010-09-28