Sir Keir Starmer, previous PM Gordon Brown and several government ministers were among those at the service at Hull Minister.

The Government is introducing powers to prosecute the people in the boats. But smugglers do not risk their own lives in flimsy dinghies. Armed with guns and knives, they stay on shore and order terrified refugees onto flimsy vessels that are overcrowded death traps.

Labour’s latest attempt to stop small boat migrant Channel crossings will not work, one of the party’s own MPs has said. Graham Stringer, who has been a Labour MP since 1997, said he did not have confidence in Sir Keir Starmer’s plan.

Yvette Cooper is pressing ahead with plans her party previously opposed as campaigners warn measures will only increase trafficking

A LABOUR MP has slated his party’s growth agenda saying it “reeks of panic”. In a column for The Guardian, Clive Lewis said plans announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves earlier this week are “fraught with risk” and represent a “sign of desperation”.

A South Gloucestershire councillor has been expelled from Labour after 40 years for announcing he will stand as an independent in May’s West of England metro mayor election. As previously reported, Cllr Ian Scott accused the party of age and sex discrimination in November after a panel culled him from the shortlist of nominees for its candidacy.

Sir Keir Starmer accused the previous Conservative government of ‘driving a coach and horses’ through protections for victims of trafficking

Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president has just set out with our own dynamism… Every country has to do it.”

A LONG-serving Labour councillor has announced she has left the party and will represent her constituents as an Independent instead.

Riddled with jargon, Labour’s Plan will hold Britain back at a critical crossroads in global innovation. Britain deserves a bold, forward-thinking government to secure its position as a tech superpower. In contrast, Labour’s approach is analogue government in the digital age.

BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce could not hide her bewilderment last night when a Tory MP tried to take credit for some of Labour’s new infrastructure plans. The government has just unveiled a series of building projects meant to boost economic growth in the coming years,

AstraZeneca Plc abandoned plans to invest £450 million ($558 million) in a UK vaccine manufacturing plant, following protracted wrangling with the new Labour government over the level of state funding for the site.