‘The PM channels Attlee on defence. But a wealth tax, not aid cuts, should fund it’
Listening to Sir Keir Starmer explaining why standing up to Russian tyranny and bending over backward to get…
Denis MacShane
Two-child cap: ‘Rebelling might feel good to the seven, but it’s not real-time politics’
Seven. Just seven? Is that the total number of Labour MPs the remaining Corbyn era anti-Starmer comrades could…
‘Labour needs more excitement and hope to motivate voters – look at 1997’
Speaking recently Claire Ainsley, Labour’s former Policy Director whose seminal book “The New Working Class” identified the voters…
Denis MacShane: 10 reasons to back a new Brexit referendum
Labour has many decent, sensible anti-Brexit campaigners – MPs, ex-cabinet ministers, academics, writers on Europe, serious commentators –…
Denis MacShane: Labour should be leading the People’s Vote march on Saturday
The other day, I received an email from the very energetic Labour parliamentary candidate in my home constituency…
Denis MacShane: The party which pledges a second referendum will take No 10
Like a giant, ugly toad, Brexit is set to squat on our political life for years to come.…
Denis MacShane: Why Michael Gove’s agenda was behind the PM’s Brexit deal
In March, Michel Barnier told me he had offered Britain a two year transition period after April 2019…
Denis MacShane: Goodbye Nigel – you enjoyed the spotlight but it’s over for UKIP
The Daily Telegraph website carried a report by its Europe editor, Peter Foster, on the new £50bn offer made by…
Denis MacShane: May’s duel with Macron shows the last thing the Tories want is more rights for workers after Brexit
No-one so far in Labour or the left-wing media has picked up on the remarkable boost for workers’…
Denis MacShane: Blair was wrong on immigration as PM but he is right now
Predictably anything that Tony Blair says is met with knee-jerk rent-a-quote Tory, Labour and trade union denunciations. But…
