British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party suspended Diane Abbott, the country's longest-serving female lawmaker, on Thursday after she stood by her earlier remarks on racism which had led to a previous suspension.

Diane Abbott’s removal deepens tensions within Labour’s left flank, with allies viewing it as part of broader purge of dissenting voices - Anadolu Ajansı

It's estimated that the move to allow 16-year-olds the vote will mean there will be around 1.35 million new voters. Labour will benefit from over 200,000 new voters while Reform would secure around 40,000.

The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’

One recent poll on support for a hypothetical Corbyn-led party – which we should take with some salt – found that its 10% support comes partly from eating into the Green vote. An electoral arrangement with the Greens, on the other hand, may require shared policy platforms, raising the question of why a separate party is needed.

There are parallels between the political conditions which faced Harold Wilson and Sir Keir Starmer’s current challenges.

WHEN polling day dawns at the next general election, some 1.6million new voters will have been added to the electoral rolls. Hundreds of thousands of bright-eyed 16 and 17-year-olds will be

Labour are rumoured to be on the verge of blocking Chinese electric vehicles from a new £650 million grant scheme. In response, Beijing has issued a stern warning to the Labour Party government, with a Chinese embassy spokesman cautioning that the nation would "resolutely safeguard" its electric car industry.