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The Labour Party could see its first defection to the Conservatives since 1977, with three MPs reportedly considering crossing the floor.

Although Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer won some battles with the left at last week's party conference, he suffered several embarrassing defeats at the event... 03.10.2021, Sputnik International

The Three MPs decided during last week's Labour conference in Brighton to 'open lines of communication' with Tory whips about switching parties, The Mail on Sunday understands.

BRITISH MPS URGE UK TO ENSURE RELIEF WORK A delegation headed by Labour MP John Stonehouse and top officials of War on Want, Christian Aid and Oxfam, called on Sir Alec Douglas Home, British foreign secretary, and told him that Britain should do something so that international relief work could be started in Bangladesh. The former minister for development Reg Prentice MP also led a deputation to the present minister Richard Wood, and told him not to give British aid to Pakistan until the Bangladesh situation was politically settled. Another British MP, Bruce Douglas-Mann, who had been in Indi...

Shirley Williams, Labour Cabinet minister who left her party to help form the SDP – obituary Conservatives blamed her for killing off grammar schools when at Education, but she was not the prime mover of a policy she warmly embraced 12 April 2021 • 4:32pm Baroness Williams of Crosby (here as Shirley Williams in 1981): the SDP’s ‘collective leadership’ valued her popularity, warmth, intellect and enthusiasm Baroness Williams of Crosby, who has died aged 90, was a controversial Education Secretary and one of the “Gang of Four” who left Labour to found the SDP, eventually becoming ...