The Labour Party (LP), under the leadership of Senator Nenadi Usman, is currently holding its statutory National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja.

It's estimated that the move to allow 16-year-olds the vote will mean there will be around 1.35 million new voters. Labour will benefit from over 200,000 new voters while Reform would secure around 40,000.

Diane Abbott’s removal deepens tensions within Labour’s left flank, with allies viewing it as part of broader purge of dissenting voices - Anadolu Ajansı

The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’

There are parallels between the political conditions which faced Harold Wilson and Sir Keir Starmer’s current challenges.

WHEN polling day dawns at the next general election, some 1.6million new voters will have been added to the electoral rolls. Hundreds of thousands of bright-eyed 16 and 17-year-olds will be

Labour are rumoured to be on the verge of blocking Chinese electric vehicles from a new £650 million grant scheme. In response, Beijing has issued a stern warning to the Labour Party government, with a Chinese embassy spokesman cautioning that the nation would "resolutely safeguard" its electric car industry.

Labour minister Jess Phillips says rebel MPs right to be punished for ‘slagging off own government’ - Comes as Keir Starmer’s attempt to impose discipline on party faces fresh challenge from Diane Abb