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April 2017

  • Labour MPs Tom Watson and Liz Kendall

    'It’s going to be a bloodbath': Tories target high-profile Labour seats

    Conservatives eye seats in Midlands and northern England in the hope of ousting current and former shadow ministers

February 2017

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    Labour sure it can see off Ukip in Stoke byelection despite voter apathy

    Party activists take heart from Paul Nuttall’s fading campaign despite expected low turnout

December 2015

  • Jeremy Corbyn talks to the media after Labour candidate Jim McMahon was confirmed as the newly elected member of parliament for Oldham West and Royton.

    Jeremy Corbyn critics fear ‘revenge reshuffle’ after election boost

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Whip his shadow cabinet? There's nothing Corbyn would like more

    John Crace

March 2014

  • Vernon Coaker cyberwar

    Labour urges strategic defence review to consider cyberwar threat

    Shadow defence secretary Vernon Coaker to call for 2015 review to focus more on long-term strategy and 'smart power'

October 2013

  • Vernon Coaker

    Vernon Coaker to visit yards building Trident's replacement submarines

    Shadow defence secretary to show Labour remains committed to new nuclear deterrent with visit to Barrow's Vanguard site

January 2013

  • Vernon Coaker, Labour’s spokesman on Northern Ireland

    Belfast riots unacceptable, says Labour's Northern Ireland spokesman

    Vernon Coaker adds voice to condemnation of Belfast disorder and says government is giving riot-hit region 'highest priority'

March 2010

  • Young people claim there is little for them to do in the evening

    Schools should take more bad parents to court, says schools minister

    Vernon Coaker urged headteachers to issue court orders compelling parents to improve their children's behaviour

January 2010

  • Schools key to IT industry, says Coaker

    Education minister Vernon Coaker has told a conference that IT innovation in the UK has to start in schools

October 2009

  • At Vox 4 Tots, a vocational scheme for primary-age children, pupils paint the ‘feelings wall’

    Mortarboard blog
    Cambridge primary review: why the government rejects it

    The full reaction from the schools minister, Vernon Coaker

June 2009

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    New schools minister pledges support for academies

  • Gordon Brown moves Vernon Coaker into schools minister role

December 2008

  • Minister Vernon Coaker apologises for misleading MPs over police injuries

    Home Office minister says sorry to parliament after Guardian reveals most police injuries from climate protest were from insects or heat
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