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A political scandal soon developed in the United Kingdom as the politicians of opposition Conservative Party accused the ruling Labour Party of receiving free tickets to the Eras Tour in exchange of the security grant.
2024 Labour Party freebies controversy; 2024 Rochdale by-election; 2024 United Kingdom general election betting scandal; A. Antisemitism in the British Labour Party; B.
The Labour party proxy and undeclared donations was a political scandal involving the British Labour Party in November and December 2007, when it was discovered that, contrary to legislation passed during the Blair Government, the Party had been receiving significant financial donations made anonymously via third parties.
In the 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection, which began following the announcement that the incumbent MP Eric Joyce was to step down at the 2015 general election, allegations were made on the significant infiltration of the selection process by the Unite trade union, the Labour Party's largest financial backer. [30]
The 1997 General Election Labour Party manifesto was entitled "new Labour because Britain deserves better". [citation needed] In the section headed "We will clean up politics", the text pointed to the debasing of democracy through Conservative MPs who had taken cash for asking questions in the House of Commons. A pledge was made to the "reform ...
The Palace of Westminster. The 2009 cash for influence scandal (also cash for amendments or cash for laws) was a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2009 concerning four Labour Party Life Peers offering to help make amendments to legislation for up to £120,000.
The Labour Party has been investigating allegations of a rise in antisemitism complaints since Jeremy Corbyn won the 2015 Labour Party leadership election. [8] While complaints regarding proceedings over antisemitism and other forms of racism and discrimination had existed prior to Corbyn's election as leader, over the course of his leadership they seemed to have become more numerous.
Ivan Lewis, the Labour MP for Bury South, was accused of sexually harassing a 19-year-old at a Labour Party event. He denied the claim on 4 November 2017, but apologised for behaviour that "was unwelcome or inappropriate in the circumstances, and caused anyone to feel awkward". [33] He was suspended from the Labour Party and resigned a year ...