Labour

Jared O’Mara, who ousted former Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, to become MP for Sheffield Hallam in this year’s General Election issued a “grovelling apology” for sexist and lewd comments which were published on a well-known UK political blog, Guido Fawkes. O’Mara made the comments on a music forum, “Drowned in Sound” in 2004 when he was 23 years old.

The Sun newspaper reports:

Jared O’Mara was forced to say sorry for his sick online posts just weeks after Labour launched a crackdown on abuse in the party…

 

Labour leader, Jacinda Ardern, will be New Zealand’s next Prime Minister after winning the support of the New Zealand First Party to form a coalition government. Labour with NZ First and the Greens will have 63 of the 120 parliamentary seats versus the National Party with 56. At 37, Ardern joins a global wave (France, Austria) of young politicians being appointed to key leadership roles, and will be the country’s youngest Prime Minister and the third woman to hold the post.

In a blow to Theresa May's ambitions to implement a "clean Brexit", on Tuesday morning UK’s Supreme Court ruled the UK Prime Minister can’t start the Brexit process without approval from Parliament, a decision that could potentially complicate her path toward a clear break from the European Union. Eight justices voted against the government and three voted in favor of it, in a decision that was widely expected.

British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is reportedly preparing to call for an investigation into Tony Blair for war crimes during the Iraq War in the wake of a long-awaited Chilcot report. The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will publish a 2.6 million-word report on July 6, following seven years of analyzing evidence about how the British government acted before the 2003 invasion of Iraq and during the war. The Independent reports: During the Labour leadership election Mr Corbyn said he was convinced the Iraq War was illegal and that anyone who had committed a crime should be put on trial.

The Labour party has suspended Ken Livingstone “for bringing the party into disrepute” after MPs accused him of antisemitism and making offensive comments about Hitler supporting Zionism. The former mayor of London and veteran politician said that the accusations of antisemitism were part of a campaign against the Labour leader. “Frankly, there’s been an attempt to smear Jeremy Corbyn and his associates as antisemitic from the moment he became leader.