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Theresa May will form a government with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). Mrs May has been to Buckingham Palace to see the Queen this morning, where she told the monarch she could form a government in the wake of the disastrous snap election which has robbed Conservatives of their overall majority in the House of Commons. She described the DUP - who won 10 of Northern Ireland's 18 seats - as 'friends' of the Conservative Party Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has urged her to resign and allow him to form a minority administration, declaring: "We are ready...

After receiving formal permission from the monarchy, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will try to form a new government after her Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority in Thursday's election. "I will now form a government," May said in front of 10 Downing Street moments after she spoke with Queen Elizabeth, "a government that can provide certainty and lead Britain forward at this critical time for our country." Noting the "crucial Brexit talks that begin in just 10 days," May said the new government will work to fulfill the will of U.K. voters who decided to leave the European Union....

THE Tories’ seeming election disaster has come at the hands of the Millennial generation they ignored for too long. The recent infatuation with Jeremy Corbyn’s extremism cannot be put down to the normal tradition of young people leaning to the Left. For decades he was a joke figure in the Labour Party, an irrelevant throwback to failed political ideals discredited worldwide since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. But in the past two years his ideas and popularity have been turbo-charged by an economic system in which far too many of the Millennial generation have no stake. Their wages have...

British Prime Minister Theresa May's gamble on a June 8 snap election was thrust into doubt after a Survation poll showed her Conservative Party's lead had dropped to a new low of just one percentage point. While British pollsters all predict May will win the most seats in Thursday's election, they have given an array of different numbers for how big her win will be, ranging from a landslide victory to a much more slender win without a majority. Some of the polls indicate the election could be on a knife edge that would throw Britain into political deadlock just...

The wannabe Home Secretary claimed Brits “invented racism” and called Parliament “the heart of darkness, in the belly of the beast”. It comes after the top Corbyn ally has been forced to distance herself from a slew of anti-British remarks from her long career. According to contemporary reports the incendiary remarks were made to a US conference for radical left wingers in 1988 — but last night sparked fury. Top Tory James Cleverly hit out: “Many people feel that Corbyn’s core team, including Diane Abbott, don’t really like Britain and British people. These quotes prove it.”

The calamitous news for Theresa May comes from the first seat by seat projection for the campaign, and suggests the Conservatives will fall 16 seats short of an overall majority. The polling method has taken into account an unusual technique using a complex computer model. The YouGov prediction would leave Theresa May with 310 MPs – 20 fewer than at the time of dissolution of the last Parliament – while Labour are set to surge from 229 to 257 MPs on June 8 election, a gain of 28 seats in the Commons. The shocking scenario could leave Theresa May’s hand...

The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party says Prime Minister Theresa May’s government is resisting “democratic scrutiny” of the Brexit process because it has not developed any plans for leaving the 28-nation bloc. Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday called on May to immediately spell out her Brexit negotiating terms to Parliament now that Britain’s High Court has ruled that Parliament must give its approval before formal talks begin. …

Jeremy Corbyn indicated that the Labour Party will not try and block Britain’s departure from the European Union after the pivotal High Court ruling in London on Thursday said that Prime Minister Theresa May has to get approval from parliament to trigger Article 50. “Labour respects the decision of the British people to leave the European Union,” the Labour Party leader said in a statement. “But there must be transparency and accountability to parliament on the terms of Brexit.”

MainAll NewsEuropeJewish peer resigns from Labour party after Corbyn re-elected Jewish peer resigns from Labour party after Corbyn re-elected Senior Jewish member 'divorces' Labour, claiming Corbyn 'lukewarm' on anti-Semitism. JTA - Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected head of the British Labour party, leading to the resignation of a Jewish peer from the party. The results were announced at the start of the party conference on Saturday. Corbyn defeated challenger Owen Wilson, 313,209 votes to 193,229 votes. Corbyn has faced allegations that his pro-Palestinian politics and endorsement of radical anti-Semites has encouraged hate speech against Jews. He been accused of doing...

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn turned down an invitation by Israel’s opposition chief to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, a British newspaper reported. Corbyn responded to the invitation, made in the spring by Isaac Herzog, the head of Israel’s Zionist Union political list, several weeks later, saying his schedule was full and that he would send either Tom Watson, the deputy party leader, or Iain McNicol, the party general secretary, in November, according to the Guardian. The invitation from Herzog came in April after former London Mayor Ken Livingstone said Nazi leader Adolf Hitler supported Zionism. Already suspended...

The Labour party has suspended a prominent donor for likening Jeremy Corbyn’s team to Nazi stormtroopers. Michael Foster, a former celebrity agent who has donated more than £400,000 to the party, said the Labour leader and his team had “no respect for others and worse, no respect for the rule of law”. His comments were published in an article in the Mail on Sunday, titled: “‘Why I despise Jeremy Corbyn and his Nazi stormtroopers’, by Jewish Labour donor Michael Foster.” The piece appeared on 14 August, a month after the high court ruled against Foster’s attempt to stop Corbyn from...

Jeremy Corbyn used his position in Parliament to call for the “complete rehabilitation” of Leon Trotsky, it has emerged despite dismissing concerns about hard-Left entryism as “nonsense”. In 1988, the Labour leader – then a backbencher – demanded the Marxist revolutionary and other communists have their achievements formally recognised by the Russian state. Mr Corbyn was one of a series of prominent left-wingers who put their name to an Early Day Motion, a form of parliamentary petition with no standing in law, which made the call. It came to light after parliamentary staff on Monday uncovered a paper record of...

Some of Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters were promised £25 from a secret fund to pay their fees to vote for the underfire Labour leader to retain his position against Owen Smith, it emerged last night. The Labour Party has closed a JustGiving page that raised more than £14,000 in three days to pay people to vote in the election. The money will now be returned to donors after the party’s ruling National Executive Committee said it breached its rules. A separate Facebook group, named Gimme 25, had amassed almost 3,000 members. On its page, it says: “Don’t think of it as...

Seumas Milne remains on the staff of the Guardian and Observer while Labour pays him to work as its director of strategy. As a colleague on leave, he has the right to be treated with a gentleness journalists would not usually extend to spin doctors who do not enjoy his advantages. I therefore write with the caution of a good corporate man and the cheeriness of a co-worker when I say Milne could not do a better job of keeping the Tories in power if rogue MI5 agents had groomed him at Winchester College, signed him up at Oxford University...

Jeremy Corbyn has lost a vote of no confidence in his leadership (172 votes to 40) but is expected to battle on to force a contest in which Angela Eagle or Tom Watson is likely to be the rival candidate.

Jeremy Corbyn could be deposed as Labour leader within days after two MPs formally tabled a motion of no confidence in him. Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey's demand will be discussed at the Parliamentary Labour Party's next meeting on Monday evening and a vote could be held as early as Tuesday. Sources close to the Labour rebels said the move would trigger a straight yes/no vote on whether MPs held confidence in Mr Corbyn, with a leadership content being launched if a majority said no. However Mr Corbyn's team are unsure about whether the no confidence motion is actually allowed...

Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned anti-Semitism late Sunday night, after weeks of blatantly hateful remarks by members of the party against Jews and Israel. "Anti-Semitism is absolutely abhorrent and wrong,” he stated, on a BBC One interview. “Anyone that commits any act of anti-Semitism, that makes anti-Semitic remarks, is auto excluded from the party and an inquiry follows immediately." "We have suspended, we will suspend, any member that behaves in that way," he added. Corbyn's statement surfaces after weeks of unfettered hatred from Labour party members toward Jews. In March, Vicki Kirby, a party organizer banned for calling Hitler...

UK Prime Minister David Cameron issued sharp criticism of the Labour party Wednesday, given the large number of members recently exposed making anti-Semitic comments and the party's unwillingness to take action against them. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3j-qs0U764 n parliament, Mike Freer of the Conservative party asked Cameron if he agrees that all organizations "public and private" should root out anti-Semitism, in a timely statement given the Labour party's recent association with anti-Semitism. "Anti-Semitism is an absolute cancer in our society," responded Cameron, warning that when hatred of Jews grows it's a signal of "many even worse things happening to ethnic groups and...

As Corbyn tightens control over Labour, the strangest thing about Corbynism is the inconsistency between the socialist pacifism at home and the anti-Western militarism abroad. At first his views seemed so colourfully crankish that they were hard to take seriously. As has been exposed since he became leader, Corbyn and his entourage have backed a motley crew of dictatorships and terrorist organisations, from the IRA in the Eighties to Hamas and Hezbollah ("our friends"), and have attended meetings with an array of sinister anti-Semitic conspiracists. (Corbyn makes clear he is not anti-Semitic himself.) If you exclude the anti-Zionism, you might...

Britain's leading anti-Israel organization has had its bank accounts closed, after it was revealed it may have been "inadvertently" funding Palestinian terrorism. The radical Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) - which counts UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as one of its patrons - was informed by the Co-operative Bank that its accounts were being closed due to the "high risk" destinations of its funds, many of which are donated to Hamas-linked agencies and other extremist groups in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. ...