Labour leader Lodewijk Asscher is stepping down from the job because of criticism of his role in the childcare benefit scandal, just two months before the general election. Asscher was social affairs ...

Lodewijk Asscher isn’t one to mince words when it comes to hatred on social media. The descendant of Holocaust survivors who is running for prime minister sent a shot across the bow of far right ...

Dutch Labor Party leader Lodewijk Asscher quit his post Thursday over a scandal in which thousands of parents were falsely accused of child benefit fraud. The scandal has rocked Dutch politics and the ...

A group of 15 local Labour party chiefs and city aldermen have called on social affairs minister Lodewijk Asscher to run for the party leadership and challenge the incumbent Diederik Samsom. ‘We think ...

Lodewijk Asscher, who has Jewish ancestors, in a Facebook post lists the handles of several Twitter users who used anti-Semitic language against him. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The deputy prime minister of the ...

As expected, social affairs minister and deputy prime minister Lodewijk Asscher has decided to challenge for the leadership of the Labour party (PvdA) in the run-up to the March 2017 general election.

Lilianne Ploumen has been confirmed as the new leader of the Labour party (PvdA) following the resignation of Lodewijk Asscher over his role in the child benefits scandal. The 58-year-old Ploumen is ...