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.

The man expected to become Labour leader on Saturday also revealed his local pub is his 'church' and that he may have been the model for Colin Firth's dapper character in Bridget Jones Diary.

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'.

Sir Keir Starmer has made leadership rival Lisa Nandy his shadow foreign secretary as the new Labour leader announced a series of senior appointments to his top team.

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.

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.

In part one of Sky News documentary Bad Blood/New Blood Turnbull ally Craig Laundy claimed Finance Minister Matthias Cormann's signing of the petition sealed the former PM's fate.

'Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull's demise and Scott Morrison's Ascension' has lifted the curtain on the turbulent 2018 leadership challenge.

The image of Malcolm Turnbull sitting on a Sydney train has attracted over 400 comments with many praising the man worth an estimated $200 million for roughing it with the masses.

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.

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

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.

Malcolm Turnbull hosted Bill Shorten for dinner following his federal election loss last year - only to serve him a $17 bottle of wine with his meal. 

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.

Malcolm Turnbull says a cabal of media moguls conspired with right-wing Liberals led by Tony Abbott to bring down his government - so Mr Abbott could bring the Coalition back to victory in 2022.

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

Australia's 29th prime minister released his autobiography A Bigger Picture on Monday for the price of $55.

Tulsi Gabbard insists she can't control what others say as she continues to receive backing from Russian media outlets.

Tulsi Gabbard said Monday she wants to confront Hillary Clinton after the failed 2016 presidential candidate perpetuated a conspiracy theory that she's a 'Russian asset.'

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 Democratic hopeful - who is currently polling at around 1% - revealed the news on Thursday night, shortly before an appearance on Sean Hannity's Fox News program.

James Comey joins dozens of celebrities who pledged to leave the country if Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 but are still in the United States.

Tulsi Gabbard asserts there is 'no basis in fact' to Hillary Clinton's claim that she is 'a favorite of the Russians,' being used by the Kremlin to help get Donald Trump re-elected.

Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin were spotted returning to their NYC apartment building on Thursday morning following the school run with their seven-year-old son Jordan.

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, sent the request to the National Archives in a letter on Thursday.

Former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi and former Treasury official Tony Sayegh are joining the White House on a temporary basis to head the response to impeachment.

Stone is on trial at federal court in Washington D.C. and denies lying to Congress about WikiLeaks, and witness tampering. Credico said he was not Stone's conduit to Julian Assange.

Lawyers for Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard wrote Hillary Clinton asking her to immediately retract a statement about Gabbard and the Russians.

Hillary Clinton said that the treatment of Meghan Markle over the past three years has been 'heartbreaking and wrong', accusing some criticism of having a 'racial element'.

Former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has refused to rule out a 2020 bid for the White House when questioned during a radio interview in London this week.

'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.

Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, who founded research firm Fusion GPS, say Steele - their employee - revealed the existence of his dossier to the press because he was angry with James Comey.

On Twitter, Trump thanked Sen. John Kennedy 'for the job he did in representing both the Republican Party and myself against Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd on Meet the Depressed!'

Elizabeth Warren said she wants to be the last president elected by the electoral college and the first elected by the popular vote as she calls for electoral college to be abolished.

Stern had asked her point-blank to deny it: 'Raise your right hand-you've never had a lesbian affair.' Mrs. Clinton screamed: 'Never! Never! Never!'

A trio of powerful Republican senators is demanding access to information for their own Ukraine probe of whether the country's U.S. embassy assisted Hillary Clinton's campaign.

The White House launched a months-long investigation after the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium liked one of Chelsea Clinton's tweets that was critical of Donald Trump.

An unnamed Seattle Police Department officer has been terminated following an internal investigation into Instagram post he made about President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump's impeachment defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz described the president as a 'destabilizing and unpredictable candidate' four years ago.

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.'

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.

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.

After some candidates have campaigned for more than a year, Monday night's Iowa caucuses will finally kick off the Democrats' presidential primary race.

'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.

Sen. Bernie Sanders heads into the next two February contests - the Nevada caucuses and the South Carolina primary - with the shine of frontrunner status.