HENRY DEEDES: General Soleimani's death, Corbyn informed the House, was a classic example of American aggression. Once again, the US was making the wrong calls in the Middle East.

PETER HITCHENS: Where political parties combine patriotism, a strong but just welfare state, good education, firm policing and tough defence, they tend to win elections.

Labour's Jess Phillips was forced to suspend her key aide Salma Hamid (pictured) on Friday for posting 'offensive' tweets including a description of Israel as a 'murderer', between 2014 and 2016.

The shadow business secretary hit out at a scatter-gun approach that saw people and resources wasted on seats that were unwinnable, at the expense of marginal seats lost to the Conservatives.

Yvette Cooper said backing Sir Keir Starmer to replace Jeremy Corbyn was a 'hard decision' because she has 'always argued it's time we had a Labour woman leader'.

Two of Jeremy Corbyn's top allies have urged northern working class voters to join Labour and prevent southern Remainers from deciding the party's leadership contest.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn is said to have put forward the reviled former Commons custodian for a seat in the upper chamber, as well as some of his closest left-wing cronies.

Mrs Bercow, a Labour supporter, privately urged Mr Corbyn to send her husband to the Lords because the Tories would refuse, Commons sources said.

Rebecca Long-Bailey said she would not stand in the way of another referendum on Scottish independence as she clashed with her fellow Labour leadership candidates.

Daniel Janner, whose father Greville was caught up in the false claims, has told Mr Corbyn that honouring the ex-Labour deputy leader would be 'wrong and inappropriate'.

ANDREW PIERCE: As he plods painfully through his six questions, there is an embarrassed silence on the Labour benches. Some Labour MPs say there is a way out.

DAVID LEAKEY: I believe it is my public duty to say it would be a scandal if Baron 'Bully' Bercow were ever to take a taxpayer-funded seat for life on the red benches of the House of Lords.

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.

A survey of more than 10,000 people found that more than half of traditional Labour voters who defected to other parties in December did so to prevent the opposition leader becoming PM.

Labour leadership challenger Lisa Nandy has said she would vote to abolish the monarchy at a referendum while rival Rebecca Long-Bailey refused to name a former party leader she admired.

The former prime minister used a speech this morning to mark the creation of the Labour Party to criticise the current state of the political vehicle which he led to three election victories.

Harvey Proctor has lodged a formal request that the former deputy Labour leader be prevented from entering the House of Lords over his role in the botched Operation Midland.

Angela Rayner has launched a savage attack on Jeremy Corbyn as she suggested he had failed as Labour leader because he 'didn't command respect'.

GUY ADAMS: Trevor Phillips has fought racism all his life, while the party under Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of anti-Semitism and is being investigated by the EHRC.

Sir Keir Starmer was hailed for having 'achieved more in four days more than his predecessor in four years' after he unveiled steps to tackle vile abuse in the party.

Ministers should call on the NATO military alliance to use its resources to airlift PPE during the coronavirus outbreak, shadow defence secretary John Healey has said.

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.

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'.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott on Friday revealed one of his daughters was 'soon to take up a position in the Australian embassy in Beijing'.

Mr Trump was asked why he preferred Mr Morrison over Mr Turnball, but the President insisted he likes both the former and current Prime Minister 'very much'.

Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has launched a scathing attack on Scott Morrison's government for making religion a central issue of the climate change debate. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been slammed for holidaying in Hawaii during the bushfire crisis.

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.

Sydney radio 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones wants the Liberal Party to expel former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull for suggesting it was 'nuts' to build a taxpayer-funded, coal-fired power station.

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

The former prime minister described the comments as 'odious', but used the opportunity to heap praise on Peta Credlin rather than criticise Mr Turnbull.

In his tell-all memoir A Bigger Picture, Mr Turnbull suggested Ms Credlin 'dominated' Mr Abbott during his two years as PM until September 2015.

'Figured I could troll the Upper East Side with that one, and literally walked right into Huma,' Don Jr. told DailyMail.com, describing an encounter that 'horrified' sex offender Anthony Weiner's wife.

Donald Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow was the subject of a New York Times profile as Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is under fire, and the paper reported Sekulow voted for Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton linked to a pro-impeachment website urging the public to educate themselves in the midst of the Judiciary hearing debating two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump.

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.

Hillary Clinton patted herself, and her supporters, on the back for impeaching her 2016 rival President Trump in a tweet on Thursday, hours after the historic house vote.

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

Donald Trump let loose on his Democratic opponents in his first campaign rally since his impeachment trial began, telling his supporters to 'get rid of the clowns.'

Gabbard's lawyers say they were turned away by the Secret Service at the Clinton residence in Chappaqua, New York, and later by Clinton's attorney when they tried to deliver the paperwork.

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.

Almost 24 hours after Iowans caucused Democrats unveiled two-thirds of the voting results giving Pete Buttigieg 26.9% of state delegates, just ahead of Bernie Sanders.

Iowa Democrats trickled out another 9% of the overall results more than 24 hours after the caucuses ended, with no end in sight to a fiasco which means Buttigieg's win is only self-proclaimed.

Pete Buttigieg struck back at Bernie Sanders and the other candidates, telling a party event Saturday night in Manchester, New Hampshire, that Joe Biden's 'familiar playbook' can't defeat Donald Trump.

'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.'

Hillary Clinton appears defiant, defensive and arguably the most candid she has ever been about herself in the Hulu documentary 'Hillary' airing Friday.

The presenter, 31, met the future US presidential candidate in 2014 on the ITV show This Morning.

Hillary Clinton is setting out on the virtual campaign trail for Joe Biden, and will host her first fundraiser as an official surrogate for the presumed Democratic nominee later this month.