Tag: Labour Party

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally organized by Tea Party Patriots in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, to oppose the Iran nuclear agreement. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump tricked on Twitter, mistakes British Labour leader

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 12, 2015 10:21 pm

Jeremy Corbyn waves on stage after he is announced as the new leader of The Labour Party during the Labour Party Leadership Conference in London, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. Corbyn will now lead Britain's main opposition party. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Radical positions taken by U.K.’s new Labour Party leader

David Freddoso · September 12, 2015 8:00 pm

Jeremy Corbyn speaks on stage after he is announced as the new leader of The Labour Party during the Labour Party Leadership Conference in London, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. Corbyn will now lead Britain's main opposition party. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Leftist Jeremy Corbyn elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party

Michael Barone · September 12, 2015 6:05 pm

Jeremy Corbyn, whose steady and surprising march to victory runs parallel to Sen. Bernie Sanders' unexpected success in the Democratic presidential race, is a calamity for the party and leftwing movement. (AP Photos)

U.K.’s left wing takes hard anti-U.S. turn

Dan Hannan · September 12, 2015 4:00 pm

Jeremy Corbyn waves on stage after new is announced as the new leader of The Labour Party during the Labour Party Leadership Conference in London, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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British Labour elects Jeremy Corbyn in ‘stunning’ landslide

Barbara Boland · September 12, 2015 3:29 pm

Jeremy Corbyn arrives to take part in a Labour party leadership debate at the Sage in Gateshead, England, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

UK version of Bernie Sanders likely to lead Labour party

Curt Mills · September 6, 2015 8:12 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and BritishÂ Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn. (Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Why does the Left have such old leaders?

Michael Barone · August 26, 2015 2:05 am

Memorabilia supporting British Labour Party leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn is offered for sale ahead of his arrival to address party supporters as part of a nationwide leadership campaign at the Town Hall on August 18, 2015 in Middlesbrough, England. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

What’s powering the Left’s sudden rise?

Dan Hannan · August 24, 2015 4:01 am

JeremyÂ Corbyn is considered well to the political left of the average Labour politician, and is an open "democratic socialist." (AP Photo)Â

British party set to elect hardline leftist leader

Curt Mills · August 21, 2015 5:02 pm

Sanders has long styled himself a Socialist and seeks income redistribution; Corbyn wants government ownership of railroads and coal mines; and both look with favor on 90 percent tax rates. (AP)

The strange death of the center-left

Michael Barone · August 17, 2015 4:01 am

"The world may have a polling problem." That's the headline on a blogpost by Nate Silver, the wunderkind founder of the fivethirthyeight.com website. (AP)

British pollsters failed in the increasingly difficult struggle to get it right

Michael Barone · May 13, 2015 10:27 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron poses for a picture with the new Conservative Party MPs in Palace Yard on May 11, 2015 in London, England. (Getty Image)

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Further observations on the British election

Michael Barone · May 12, 2015 1:34 am