It is a scandal that Tony Blair’s Labour Party has refused to put itself before the electorate in Northern Ireland, a Tory in the North claimed today.

British Conservative party members in Northern Ireland are to join British Labour Party counterparts for a debate on the need for both organisations to have constituency associations in the North.

Ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland are being denied a say on British Labour Party policies which could affect them, it was claimed today.

Tony Blair’s British Labour Party should be organising constituency parties across the North, it was urged today.

Labour Party members in Northern Ireland may set up their own society in a bid to shame the leadership into setting up constituency associations there, it emerged today.

The competition between Northern Ireland’s four biggest political parties in the European Parliament elections has nothing to do with EU issues, a candidate claimed today.

Northern Ireland members of the British Labour Party are being made to feel as if they are unwelcome, it was claimed today.

British Labour Party chiefs were facing fresh pressure today to set up branches in Northern Ireland and to contest elections there.

The replacement of John Reid as Britain's Labour Party chairman could strengthen a campaign to get the party to lift its membership ban on people in Northern Ireland, it was claimed today.

A trade unionist today accused British Labour leaders of trying to gag him on the conference floor as he tried to bring his campaign for Northern Ireland people to be granted membership to a wider audience.

The British Labour Party is facing legal moves to force it to set up branches in Northern Ireland.