HENRY DEEDES: As Sir Lindsay Hoyle called time on Prime Minister's Questions, Jeremy Corbyn uncrossed his legs, wrinkled his nose and breathed a little sigh of relief.

Jeremy Corbyn today claimed the coronavirus crisis had validated his general election spending plans and showed he was 'absolutely right' to advocate boosting investment.

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.

Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer is expected to romp to victory when the result of the contest is announced on Saturday.

In a valedictory message to thousands of devoted followers on social media the outgoing opposition leader, 70, said he would continue to campaign on issues close to his heart from the back-benches.

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'.

The fervently pro-Corbyn Momentum group reacted to Sir Keir's overwhelming triumph by vowing to hold the new leader to account 'and make sure he keeps his promises'.

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.

Rochdale's Tony Lloyd, 70, the party's shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland, is being cared for at Manchester Royal Infirmary.

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

New Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has spent his first week on the job culling hard-left members of the Labour Shadow Cabinet, much to the anger of Momentum.

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.

Politicians taking part in Prime Minister's Questions from the safety and comfort of their own homes were upstaged by their grandchildren and their interior design sense - or lack of it.

Piers Corbyn spearheaded the rally in Glastonbury, Somerset, against the Government's lockdown, which he said was causing more people to die. He claimed that around 100 attended the protest.

HARRY COLE Ever one to defy common sense, Jeremy Corbyn, 71 next month, not only shunned all lockdown etiquette to turn up in Westminster but brought with him his third wife.

A High Court judge has ruled that comments posted online by Laura Murray, head of complaints for the Labour party, against Rachel Riley showed a 'defamatory tendency'.

Dawn Butler (pictured) said there was no doubt the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) will find that her party discriminated against Jews.

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.

Jeremy Corbyn's brother, Piers, has spearheaded an anti-lockdown protest where he claimed drug companies were 'suppressing information' on a cure for coronavirus 'because they want to impose a vaccine.'

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.

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.

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.

Barnaby Joyce's 'increasingly suspicious' wife made probing phone calls to his staff while Vikki Campion worked in his office - culminating in a blazing, door-slamming row.

A new book has shed light on the awkward government leadership meetings Barnaby Joyce was forced to attend after his affair with staffer Vikki Campion was sensationally exposed.

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'.

The Sydney backbench MP and former tennis star charged taxpayers $91 so he could stay at his luxury retreat at Kangaroo Valley on the NSW South Coast. That was before $266 in car travel costs.

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 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'.

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.

Malcolm Turnbull said he would have won the election if he hadn't been ousted in the leadership spill that saw Scott Morrison take over the party and win the election.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Scott Morrison was wrong to speak to NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller about the investigation into Angus Taylor's office.

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.

The former prime minister and ex-Liberal Party leader shared a photo of Sydney shrouded in a haze of bushfire smoke as he flew back into the city following a speaker trip to Singapore.

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.

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.

Malcolm Turnbull said the Prime Minister had misled Australians by downplaying the influence of global warming and climate change in a fiery interview with the BBC.

Chinese tech giant Huawei is hoping to overturn the ban which prevents it from operating the 5G network in Australia.

Malcolm Turnbull has blasted former political ally Mathias Cormann as 'weak and treacherous' for his key role in the leadership spill which ousted him as Prime Minister.

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.

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. 

A glamorous Sydney socialite who shot to fame in 2017 after a viral video, has won a long-standing battle to renovate her $10 million harbourside mansion.

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.

Mr Turnbull claims in his new memoir that his successor Mr Morrison 'was playing a double game' to force him out of office.