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The United Kingdom holds local elections, as well as a parliamentary by-election in the Blackpool South constituency. The Labour Party wins most councils.
2024-05-2

In what is considered a major blow to the opposition Labour Party, the Conservative Party candidate Jill Mortimer wins the by-election in Hartlepool, becoming the first-ever Conservative and female MP in the constituency's history. Mortimer hails it as a "truly historic" result.
2021-05-6

Seven Labour Party MPs (Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Angela Smith, Chris Leslie, Gavin Shuker, Ann Coffey and Mike Gapes) resign from the party, forming a new independent group, in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, and "institutional anti-Semitism" within the party.
2019-02-18

Heidi Alexander, Gloria De Piero, Ian Murray, Lilian Greenwood, Lucy Powell, Kerry McCarthy, Seema Malhotra, Vernon Coaker, Charlie Falconer, Karl Turner and Chris Bryant resign en masse from the Labour Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership over the EU referendum, and the firing of Hilary Benn.
2016-06-26

The BBC is told that the UK's three main political parties, the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, will declare that whoever forms the government after the next general election will not agree to a currency union with an independent Scotland.
2014-02-12

British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband says he will end the automatic affiliation fee paid to the Party by three million union members after the Unite union was accused of secretly signing up its members in order to get its favoured candidate elected in the Falkirk constituency.
2013-07-9

UK Labour leader Ed Miliband claims that so-called "Englishness" is being overlooked in the debate about Scottish independence, though he rejects calls for an English Parliament.
2012-06-7

A by-election is held in the UK constituency of Feltham and Heston following the death of Labour's Alan Keen.
2011-12-15

British Labour MP and former foreign secretary Jack Straw says the eurozone "will collapse" and that the euro will succumb to a "slow death".
2011-06-20

Former British Labour Party minister Elliot Morley pleads guilty to dishonestly claiming more than £30,000 in parliamentary expenses.
2011-04-7