UK's Labour faces deepening divisions with leadership contest

Published Tue, Aug 2, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    London

    DEATH threats, a brick through a window and one lawmaker even installing a panic room in her office; less than a year after Britain's Labour elected socialist Jeremy Corbyn leader on a promise of "kinder politics", the party is mired in civil war.

    The brutal infighting threatens Labour's 116-year existence and risks leaving Britain without a strong opposition party for years to come, just as the government goes about negotiating the country's exit from the European Union (EU).