Jeremy Corbyn has said “discussions are ongoing” after Zarah Sultana announced she was quitting Labour to co-lead the founding of a new party with him.

Claims of bias as BBC hires Labour activist who said ‘never trust a Tory’ as political fact-checker Oscar Bentley has regularly smeared Conservative supporters online and canvassed for Jeremy ...

Labour sources believe a bad night would see the party lose to the Tories in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and be beaten by Reform in both Greater Lincolnshire and Doncaster.

The BBC has been accused of “obvious bias” after reports of its news political fact-checker being a hard-Left Labour activist. Oscar Bentley, 25, joined the BBC last year and made his TV debut ...