It was “immigration, immigration, immigration” as the ghost of Gordon Brown’s campaign gaffe haunted tonight’s TV debate between prime ministerial hopefuls.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered an humiliating defeat in a mid-term election for a vacant parliamentary seat, exactly a year after he took power.

The Labour Party has launched a new internet advertising campaign targeting Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.

The family of a north Belfast teenager killed by two British soldiers 13 years ago have begun a new campaign to get the pair dismissed from the British army.

The British Labour party is expected to lift its ban on people in Northern Ireland joining the party.

Israel’s battered opposition Labour Party has chosen an old hand as its new leader, electing elder statesman Shimon Peres, the symbol of peacemaking with the Palestinians, as its chairman for one year.

YOU may have heard that I’m in the process of changing my day job. I don’t suppose my politics have been a secret to too many people up to now, but I’m now being asked to put them into practice again.