The Fine Gael TD abused online by colleague Barry Walsh has welcomed his resignation from the party’s national executive council after a damning 48-hour public backlash.

Jeremy Corbyn attacked the Tories as the "party of the rich, for the rich" as he addressed an enthusiastic eve-of-conference rally.

Jeremy Corbyn will address protesters at an anti-austerity demonstration in London later.

Six people have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder over a "savage" attack that left a teenage asylum seeker fighting for his life in England.

A Jewish neighbourhood watch group in England has reported a road sign which appears to warn "beware of Jews" to the police.

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK Labour Party, has attacked the wave of his MPs who have quit his top team for “indulging in internal” manoeuvring.

The Labour Party in England has suspended a councillor over social media posts, including a suggestion that Israel should be relocated to the United States.

Boris Johnson has come under fire over his attack on the “part-Kenyan” president Barack Obama.

Bricks and smoke bombs were thrown during clashes between far-right protesters and anti-fascist groups at an anti-immigration rally in Dover, England.

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has challenged London mayor Boris Johnson as he pledged to use a one-time tax on bank bonuses to end long-term youth unemployment in Scotland.

More than 4,000 police officers were last night being deployed to protect Margaret Thatcher’s funeral from terrorist threats and violent protest.

BRITAIN’S top law officer is reviewing whether the jail terms handed down to Stephen Lawrence’s killers are “unduly lenient”.

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.

David Miliband’s campaign to become Labour leader received a boost when he was backed by another party heavyweight.

Leaders of Britain’s biggest trade union today confirmed their support for former climate change secretary Ed Miliband in his bid to become Labour’s next leader, giving his campaign a big boost.

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.

Conservative Party leader David Cameron said today a new British government must ensure there was no repeat of chaotic election day scenes in which people were still queuing in their hundreds outside polling stations when the ballot boxes closed.

LABOUR fired a parliamentary candidate yesterday over offensive comments he posted on Twitter, embarrassing Prime Minister Gordon Brown ahead of May’s election.

A united Ireland is "not impossible" and must be put on the British and international political agenda, a Sinn Féin representative said today.

Changes to the law banning abortion in the North should be considered, the UN said today.

British members of parliament are to stage a fresh attempt to make it easier for women in the North to have an abortion.

Tony Blair today faced a fresh wave of attacks accusing him of deceiving Britain over Saddam Hussein’s weapons arsenal.

FORMER British Labour minister Clare Short yesterday stepped up her calls on Tony Blair to quit saying he had behaved worse than shamed John Profumo.

Tony Blair is the least trustworthy politician in Britain, a new survey found today.

THOSE of you who are late night political anoraks may have come across a BBC 2 television programme called This Week.

A MAN who was held hostage at gunpoint during a 10-day siege at a London bedsit, left the building yesterday, police said.

LABOUR'S general secretary conceded yesterday that the party faced "financial challenges" after a leaked document showed it had debts of at least £6 million.

Pro-euro campaigners in the UK want a cinema advert which has Rik Mayall portraying Adolf Hitler as a supporter of the single currency to be withdrawn.