Emily Thornberry today vowed to be an 'unashamedly socialist' Labour leader if she takes over from Jeremy Corbyn as she also pledged to quit if she did badly in the top job.

Jess Phillips acknowledged it was 'very difficult' for people to stand back from the contest, but warned it would be 'embarrassing' if Labour elected another man to its top job.

Labour is believed to have stepped in after the PM ripped up the convention that former Speakers like John Bercow go to the House of Lords after stepping down from the chair.

Alan Mardghum, a former pitworker who now runs the annual Durham Miners' Gala, said he would 'rather be found dead in a ditch than invite them' to the July event.

Emily Thornberry was grilled by Piers Morgan over Labour 'sneering' at rich and successful people as he asked her if she is proud of becoming a 'multi-millionaire'.

Analysis of the party's 80-seat defeat - its worst since 1935 - blamed Brexit policy, attacks by the media and even the lingering impact of Tony Blair's leadership in northern seats it lost.

A special Lords vetting committee is set to meet on Tuesday over a raft of peers proposed by the Labour leader and Boris Johnson.

Four men and two women, will today sit in judgment in an anonymous office in the Whitehall edifice that houses the Treasury on the most contentious set of peerage nominations for a generation.

The outgoing Labour leader told the BBC he had been vindicated by the governments spending plans to tackle the havoc wreaked on the UK economy by the coronavirus outbreak.

IAIN DUNCAN SMITH: Covid-19 has swept across the world like a medieval plague from China and in its wake it has created one of the greatest health scares in modern history.

LORD BLUNKETT: The brutal truth is that, removing the influence of those who joined Labour only to destroy it, like the organisers of Momentum, will require more than benign indifference.

The newly-elected Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has savaged Boris Johnson's handling of the coronavirus crisis, accusing the Prime Minister of making 'serious mistakes'.

Mr Miliband has been brought back as shadow business secretary as Sir Keir announced a second wave of changes after replacing Jeremy Corbyn.

The internal report found that Jeremy Corbyn did little to help discipline offenders of anti-Semitism in the UK's Labour Party until two years ago.

Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to sack one of his Shadow Ministers, Brighton Kemptown MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle, for openly claiming that Tory governments conspire to 'murder' people.

Rachel has been seen for the first time since she won the first round in her legal battle against one of Jeremy Corbyn's closest aides. The Countdown host, 34, looked in good spirits on the stroll.

Rachel Riley stepped out for a refreshing stroll with her daughter amid her on going legal battle in libel claim against one of Jeremy Corbyn's aides.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton made the bombshell claims in part one of new Sky News documentary Bad Blood/New Blood which premiered on Monday night.

The former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party was speaking at a business leaders forum hosted by the Queensland University of Technology on Tuesday when she compared the two former leaders.

Mr Turnbull, who was dropped from the top job in August last year, said members of the Australian Liberal Party's right-wing faction 'essentially operate as terrorists'.

Mr Turnbull said the Liberal Party's failure to deliver a coherent and effective energy policy could be blamed on climate change deniers within its ranks.

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull told guests at a Sydney yacht club Donald Trump was 'seeking to tear at' and destroy the United States. He met the US President at the White House in 2018.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull served lunch to homeless people on Christmas Day. The 65-year-old handed out free meals with all the trimmings at Sydney charity Wayside Chapel.

Units in Australia's most elite suburb are so dear it is possible to buy two median-price houses in Sydney for the same money - and still have change left over to buy a Porsche 911 Carrera.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on Australia to implement a Green New Deal. This is also the name of a radical proposal in the US for 100 per cent renewables by 2030.

He went on the lead the party to political victory again in 2016, before he was overthrown once more by Scott Morrison in 2018 - a man who Mr Turnbull believes never should have been elected.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has suggested his bitter predecessor Tony Abbott's chief-of-staff Peta Credlin 'owned' and 'dominated' her former boss.

Democrats worried about whether their front runners could beat Trump are musing about others who could run including Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Michael Bloomberg, Eric Holder and John Kerry.

A week after a torrent of press reports that Clinton had branded Gabbard a Russian spy, a closer listening to the podcast reveals the former secretary of state never said it.

A longtime adviser to Hillary Clinton said she has not ruled out running for president again in 2020, challenging Donald Trump a second time, her longtime aide Philippe Reines said.

The majority of millennials, those born between 1981-1996, said in a poll released Monday that they would vote for a socialist candidate.

A poll by Harvard Harris shows that Clinton would get 18percent of the vote if she entered the race today, while 19percent of Democrats would vote for Biden.

Gates, who flipped on Paul Manafort during Robert Mueller's probe, told Stone's trial at Washington D.C. federal court how Trump spoke to Stone on July 31, 2016, then said more emails would come.

'Every day Stephen Miller remains in the White House is an emergency,' Hillary Clinton tweeted on Tuesday along with a letter to President Donald Trump endorsed by groups like the NAACP.

The House of Representatives is creating a new holiday tradition: an impeachment vote on nearly the exact anniversary of Bill Clinton's own ego-crashing humiliation 21 years ago.

Tulsi Gabbard said she is suing Hillary Clinton for at least $100 million in damages to hold the former secretary of state accountable.

Pence is attending event an event with world leaders to commemorate the Holocaust, where he greeted Vladimir Putin and complimented Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 72, uploaded a post featuring a feminist comment the Duchess of Sussex, 38, made in February 2018 to her Instagram page yesterday.

Trump tweeted early on Wednesday morning that he wished former National Security Adviser John Bolton would have came forward with his complaints when he was getting fired.

Donald Trump launched a vicious attack on John Bolton, claiming Bolton 'begged' him for a job and wanted to take the country into 'World War Six' before writing his 'nasty & untrue book.'

After three attempts to rebuff them Hillary Clinton's lawyer in New York has accepted papers that allows 2020 presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard's defamation case to proceed.

Senator Elizabeth Warren kept up her frenetic - and compressed - campaign schedule by storming into Ames, Iowa for an event at the Iowa State University Memorial Union Sunday.

The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor, 38, declared himself the sensational victor in Iowa despite there being no official results because an app crashed and results are delayed for hours.

'I'm really disappointed that some of our technology created an issue that made the caucus difficult,' said Gerard Niemira, the CEO and chairman Shadow Inc, in an interview Tuesday.

The ex-Secretary of State, who ran two unsuccessful presidential campaigns, told Ellen DeGeneres that she 'probably' wouldn't be asked to be US Vice President - before adding: 'Never say never.'

Mike Bloomberg is considering making Hillary Clinton his running mate, a source close to his campaign has told Drudge Report.

Michael Bloomberg's campaign has not denied an internet report that the former New York mayor and current presidential candidate is considering Hillary Clinton as a possible running mate.

Mike Bloomberg has reportedly recruited top Clinton ally, Capricia Marshall, for his 2020 presidential campaign amid rumors that he is considering making Hillary Clinton his running mate.

'Oh no! [laughter] No. I'm just waiting and watching as this plays out.' Hillary replied as she brushed off the question at a Clinton Global Initiative event in Puerto Rico. 'I will support whoever the nominee is.'

'The people who liked him were the Democrats. Michelle Obama loved him, loved him,' the president said in New Delhi after the rapist's conviction. He claimed he was 'not a fan.'