“Manchester has been home to the Irish and so many nationalities for centuries and at this terrible time I want to send the people of this great and welcoming city not only our sympathy but our solidarity".

Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as leader of the Labour Party in the UK.

Jeremy Corbyn has urged Labour MPs in the UK to unite behind him if, as expected, he is returned as party leader with an even bigger mandate from grassroots members.

Police and the public would be “massacred” if a major terror attack was launched outside London, a policing boss has warned.

Jeremy Corbyn will face a “bumpy ride” as Labour leader as major policy divisions emerged within his newly appointed senior team, a shadow cabinet minister has acknowledged.

Tony Blair has warned Labour supporters to reject the “Alice in Wonderland” appeal of Jeremy Corbyn or risk driving the party into an abyss.

Leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has rejected claims the party would split if he is elected to Labour’s top job as he set out plans to take on bankers, media moguls and the corporate world.

Labour leadership contender, Jeremy Corbyn, has suggested that Tony Blair could be made to stand trial for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq.

David Cameron was under mounting pressure last night after describing migrants trying to reach Britain as a "swarm".

Tony Blair has issued a stark warning to Labour not to repeat the mistakes of the 1980s which consigned the party to 18 years in opposition.

An emboldened David Cameron moved to take Britain in a new right-wing direction as the defeated Labour Party turned in on itself for going too far left in the election campaign.

Smashed and shaken by the sheer scale of its surprise election defeat, the British Labour Party now faces into months of soul searching as it chooses a new leader.

Nigel Farage has described David Cameron as “somebody we can sit down and talk to” after the election in the event of a hung parliament.

A mother and father who fought for a quarter of a century for justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster have been given New Year Honours.

Enhanced screening for ebola will begin at Britain’s biggest airport today as prime minister David Cameron insisted "vigorous steps" were being taken to prevent the deadly virus reaching the UK.

The police watchdog will pursue concerns that families of Hillsborough victims were spied on if evidence emerges, British Home Secretary Theresa May has said.

The UK's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed he will consider introducing new laws to limit the amount of sugar, salt and fat in processed foods to curb childhood obesity.

Pressure was growing today for criminal prosecutions to be brought against police officers involved in the Hillsborough disaster.

A new inquest must be held into the Hillsborough disaster, according to supporters of the victims' families.

DAVID BECKHAM’S eight-year-old son, Romeo, Prince Harry and Prince William have made their debuts on a list of Britain’s Best-Dressed “men”.

ALAN JOHNSON was appointed to the key role of shadow chancellor in Ed Miliband’s first shadow cabinet yesterday.

Voting opens in Labour’s shadow cabinet elections today, with 49 MPs battling for a place in Ed Miliband’s top team.

Ed Miliband promised today to change Labour and regain voters’ trust after winning the party’s leadership by a wafer-thin majority over his brother David.

Ed Miliband was elected leader of the Labour Party today, defeating older brother David by a wafer-thin majority of 50.65% to 49.35%.

The result of the Labour leadership contest in the UK will be announced at about 4.30pm today.

VOTING in the Labour leadership election closed last night with the contest thought too close to call.

VOTING for a new leader of the Labour party is set to begin today, with brothers David and Ed Miliband seen as front runners in an election overshadowed by the party’s controversial previous leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Former Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband has won the support of a second trade union in a week in his bid to become the next leader of the Labour Party.

Left-wing Labour MP Diane Abbott has received enough nominations to stand for the party leadership, it was announced today.

Left-wing Labour MP Diane Abbott announced today she was running for the leadership of the UK part, becoming the first woman to enter the race.

Former British home secretary Alan Johnson today ruled himself out as a contender for the Labour leadership, announcing he will back David Miliband in the upcoming contest to succeed Gordon Brown.

David Cameron's Conservatives were tonight on the brink of an historic deal with the Liberal Democrats which will see Cameron finally installed as British Prime Minister.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s attempts to strike a power-sharing deal with the Liberal Democrats were severely undermined today as a string of senior Labour figures spoke out against the move.

Gordon Brown will attempt to lift himself for the third and final prime ministerial debate today after offering a grovelling apology for branding a pensioner “bigoted”.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown described himself as a “penitent sinner” today after personally apologising to a voter he described as a “bigoted woman”.

Electoral reform was today shaping up as the key issue in determining what sort of government would emerge if the May 6 UK general election results in a hung parliament.

The British government today said it was cutting its swine flu vaccine deal with GlaxoSmithKline in a move that will see it pay two thirds of the original value, but receive just over a third of the doses.

THE impacts of climate change on health are a “very real and present danger”, British health secretary Andy Burnham warned yesterday at the launch of a report on how rising temperatures will affect the public.

Cigarette vending machines could soon be a thing of the past in the UK after MPs agreed to ban them.

British Home Secretary Alan Johnson has agreed to release previously unseen documents relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, his office confirmed today.