Labour MP Dawn Butler has written to the BBC asking for an "urgent explanation" over the airing of a racist slur during the Bafta Film Awards on Sunday. John Davidson, a guest with Tourette syndrome who was the inspiration behind the film I Swear, shouted out when two black actors, Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan, were on stage.

The Greens may have won here, but they simply do not have the resources, the activist base or the local knowledge to replicate this victory across the country

Keir Starmer was warned 'there will be a bloodletting' today after he and his allies took the extraordinary step of blocking potential leadership rival Andy Burnham from returning to Westminster. In a move that widened Labour's civil war, a committee that ...

The former Cabinet Office minister has been under pressure over claims that Labour Together, a think tank he ran before entering Government, paid a PR firm to look into journalists

A Labour MP warned that the result "couldn't be any worse" for the party

MPs criticise "rip-off" interest rates and unfair changes to repayment terms during a debate in Parliament

Labour MP Josh Simons has resigned as a Cabinet Office minister, saying he had “become a distraction from this Government’s important work”.