How Labour should fight the European elections
When the European elections happen this May, we don’t know whether we will be electing MEPs for five…
Alison McGovern
Alison McGovern: No Brexit cherry picking – the UK is either in the single market or we’re not
Unemployment, said Harold Wilson, more than anything else, made me politically conscious. I am thinking about having his…
Alison McGovern: If you want to understand what the Brexiteers don’t, start with fish
As hardline Brexiteers stepped aboard a boat on the Thames to throw haddock into the river in protest,…
Alison McGovern: If the PM wants the “exact same” deal, that means staying in the single market and customs union
Brexit has always been essentially an exercise in contradiction. And when I say always, I mean always. In…
Alison McGovern: We need to stop Tories capitulating to the hard-right over Brexit
Naturally I couldn’t help but enjoy watching the Tories running scared at their conference last week. They looked…
Grenfell scandal reeks of the worst of Britain – Alison McGovern speech
This is the full text of the speech that Alison McGovern, Progress chair, delivered to their annual conference today. …
McGovern: Labour needs to reclaim patriotism from the narrow nationalists
In this Brexit row, the dead-end rhetoric of futile nationalism is ruining our country. It is up to…
Alison McGovern: Brexit was the ghost at this failing chancellor’s feast
The new chancellor opened his first Budget speech yesterday with a line that probably contained more truth than…
Alison McGovern: If Britain does nothing amid the horror of Syria then we allow a terrible new world order to take hold
There have been times over the last five years when I have sat in the House of Commons…
Alison McGovern: On immigration and trade – why May got it so wrong yesterday
Laura Kuennsberg of the BBC asked Theresa May the correct question yesterday. Either, she said, the prime minister…
