Jeremy Corbyn is a most unusual politician in these times.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi's meeting with British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in London triggered a row back home with the Bharatiya Janata Party asking him whether he endorsed the UK opposition leader's "anti-India" views.
Britain's outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday asked opposition Labour party's embattled leader Jeremy Corbyn to step down in the national interest, saying "for heaven's sake man, go".
The motion of no confidence in Corbyn was submitted by Labour MPs Dame Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey and a secret ballot could be held on Tuesday.
United Kingdom's embattled Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn was on Saturday again pressurised to step down with a former Labour Party leader calling on him to "do his duty and resign".
Corbyn won 61.8 per cent of the total vote, an even larger margin of victory than last year.
The Labour Party leader, whose stand on Kashmir has not gone down well with the Indian government, also tweeted a picture of the meeting.
Another Member of Parliament, Professor Manoj Jha from the Rashtriya Janata Dal, who also went for a function in which Rahul Gandhi was participating in London, had all due permission including -- the due political clearance.
'What my Labour government will seek with India is a relationship based on our shared values of democracy and aspiration. That will seek a free trade agreement (FTA), we share that ambition, but also a new strategic partnership for global security, climate security, economic security'
The United Kingdom's embattled opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, on Tuesday lost a no-confidence motion brought against him by his Labour party MPs in the wake of UK's shock Brexit vote.
Navendu Mishra (Stockport) and Nadia Whittome (Nottingham East) were among the other Labour MPs re-elected with convincing majorities.
India maintains that the Kashmir issue is a bilateral one and no third party has any role in it.
'Things are now changing rapidly and the US is trying to get in before there is no way to,'feels British MP Jeremy Corbyn.
Ballot papers were posted out as voting opened on Monday to decide if veteran leftist Jeremy Corbyn will remain the head of UK's Opposition Labour party, amid deep divisions within the 116-year-old organisation over the leadership challenge triggered by the 'Brexit' vote in June.
Parliamentarians Roger Godsiff and Jeremy Corbyn joined demonstrators of the South Asia Solidarity Group on Friday to urge President A P J Abdul Kalam to protect the 'human rights' of Afzal.
The United Kingdom votes on June 8. A quick guide to the post terror election.
MPs Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey held a press conference in London to tell reporters that they would sit as a separate independent group within Britain's Parliament.
The future of Rishi Sunak as Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party hangs in the balance as polling booths opened across the United Kingdom on Thursday, with millions expected to turn out to cast their votes in the general election.
Tearful British MPs paid glowing tributes to their slain colleague Jo Cox in the House of Commons on Monday at a special session to honour the "passionate and progressive" Labour politician who was murdered by a far-right activist.
The extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in the US over the alleged leak of classified documents related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sent to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday.
After debating the motion put forward by May in the House of Commons, 522 of the 650 sitting MPs voted in favour of the June 8 election, passing the threshold of two-thirds needed to approve the plan.
Labour Leader Keir Starmer told a gathering of hundreds of British Indians that he was determined to put an end to 'divisive politics' and extremist elements exploiting social media to spread hatred within communities.
The word was actually coined in 1965!
The manifesto also commits Labour to constitute a judge-led inquiry into Britain's "injustices of the past", including a public review of the country's role in Operation Blue Star -- referred to as the "Amritsar massacre".
The unexpected development took place after opposition Labour Party supported the bill moved by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
United States President sparked outrage on Thursday after he retweeted three inflammatory videos from a British far-right account rife with anti-Muslim content.
Labour MP Jo Cox was holding a meeting with constituents, in her local constituency when an altercation reportedly led to the attack.
The exhibition is conceived as a 'lived experience' creation, based on work with descendants and communities to collect stories related to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on April 13, 1919.
The Pakistani-origin former Labour member of Parliament was the first Muslim mayor of a European capital city when he was first elected in 2016. The mayoral poll was due last year but was postponed by a year at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
President Donald Trump has regularly used the phrase to criticise certain media reports.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Opposition Leader Keir Starmer clashed in the House of Commons over a controversial by-election leaflet, which had been branded "divisive" and "anti-India" by Indian diaspora groups in Britain.
The man charged with the brutal street killing of UK's first-time woman lawmaker Jo Cox on Saturday gave his name as "death to traitors, freedom for Britain" when he appeared in a court in London, as the European Union referendum campaigning was suspended nationally until Sunday in tribute to her.
Johnson reacted to media speculation on Twitter by dismissing any rebellion.
The police identified 2 of London attackers as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane.
Four Tornados took off from the Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, shortly after the House of Commons vote gave the go-ahead for Britain to assist in the United States-led bombing of Islamic State.
May told House of Commons that there was "clear evidence" the Bashar al-Assad government was behind a recent chemical weapons attack in Douma.
In a series of votes on Tuesday, lawmakers rejected a no-deal Brexit by 318 votes to 310, undermining the government's argument that Britain would be willing to crash out of the EU without an agreement.
The Withdrawal Agreement was rejected by 432 votes to 202 - a majority of 230, the biggest defeat ever suffered by a British premier in modern history.
May has been prime minister for nearly three years since she took over from David Cameron in the wake of the June 2016 Brexit referendum.
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