The decline of industry in Stoke, and the Tory threat to manufacturing, shows why Labour has every right to reject article 50
The potteries in Stoke didn’t close because of immigration. They closed because of foreign competition from China and…
Dan McCurry
Corbyn should put football’s TV rights at the heart of his war on sky-high pay
Jeremy Corbyn makes a good point about the extraordinary pay of Premier League football players, but…
McDonnell is right – Labour has a crop of future leaders but Lewis catches my eye
I want to apply some Kremlinolgy to John McDonnell’s recent interview with the Eastern Daily Press, when he spoke…
Trump is terrible – but May’s confusion over Brexit shows Britain has drawn the short straw on the choice of new premiers
When Donald Trump offended China with a phone call to the premier of Taiwan, it looked like a…
Britain didn’t vote to be worse off – Labour must demand a second referendum
A recent YouGov poll concluded that voters won’t accept a Brexit that leaves them worse off. Those regions…
Memo to Jeremy: Remind voters it’s not the economy that pays for the NHS but the health service that powers the economy
At the last election Labour campaigned very heavily on the NHS and went on to lose, badly. Yet…
Blair could help save Labour if he attacks the Tories as well as he picks apart Brexit
Tony Blair says he wants to re-engage with British politics, which presumably means he wants to get back…
The vast majority of Labour members oppose Brexit – we can make sure it ends with a bang rather than a whimper
The last time Brexit faced a major hurdle was when the courts ruled the triggering of article 50…
It has been nearly 20 years since Blair took power – he would have to reinvent himself if he was to return to British politics
Tony Blair wants to re-enter the debate in British politics. He is looking for offices in Westminster in…
Trump’s blue-collar victory shows Labour needs an answer to globalisation’s squeeze on the working class
Southern Discomfort, a 1990s pamphlet from the Fabian Society, argued that middle class voters of southern England were…
