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The Labour Party's National Executive Committee votes 22–12 to prevent former leader Jeremy Corbyn from running as a candidate in their next election.
2023-03-28

The Communist Party of Britain announces it will not field any candidates in the upcoming general election for the first time since its formation in 1920, and endorses Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying victory for Mr Corbyn at the general election in June would be “the first step towards a formation of left-led government at Westminster”.
2017-04-24

Thousands of people protest in Whitehall calling on British Prime Minister David Cameron to resign over his financial affairs and his handling of them in relation to revelations made by the leak of the Panama Papers.
2016-04-9

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

Labour's Emma Lewell-Buck retains the South Shields Parliamentary seat for the party following Thursday's by-election, but with a reduced majority after the UK Independence Party secures almost a quarter of the votes cast.
2013-05-3

Former British Labour Party minister Denis MacShane resigns his House of Commons seat after he wrongfully claimed at least £7,500 in expenses.
2012-11-2

Bradford West by-election: Respect Party candidate George Galloway tours the City of Bradford on an open-top bus in celebration of his shock victory over Labour, a result which has been described as the "Bradford Spring".
2012-03-30

British Labour MP Eric Illsley resigns his seat two days before he is due to be sentenced for dishonestly claiming parliamentary expenses, thus triggering a by-election.
2011-02-8

In the UK, Labour wins the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election with a majority of more than 3,500.
2011-01-14

Ed Miliband declares the death of Tony Blair's centrist New Labour in his first interview since being elected leader of the British Labour Party yesterday.
2010-09-26