‘Lammy has shattered Labour’s Brexit omerta and reopened discussion on relations with the EU’
Brexit has failed and David Lammy has sparked a long-suppressed debate on rebuilding trade ties with Europe. Is this the turning point?
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Tribute: ‘David Lipsey’s joie de vivre is missing in Labour politics today’
The death of David Lipsey while swimming in the River Wye closes an era of Labour history.
‘The PM channels Attlee on defence. But a wealth tax, not aid cuts, should fund it’
Denis MacShane writes that watching Keir Starmer is like reliving the early dramas of post-war Europe 1948-51.
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 muster to vote last night?
‘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 lost to Labour between 2010 and 2020 issued this call: “I think Labour have to excite people to motivate them…
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 – who are hostile towards the idea of holding a new referendum. Their arguments are sincere, well-made…
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 in London. He asked me and other Labour Party members to take part this Saturday in a street stall to promote Labour. I try…
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. Theresa May’s handshake with Jean-Claude Juncker and her written agreement with the Irish prime minister Leo Veradkar allows 2018 to begin with a…
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 in which we could trade freely without tariffs or duties provided London accepted existing EU rules and laws on social protection…
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 the Whitehall mandarinate who have taken charge of the Brexit negotiations. Alongside it was a denunciation of the offer 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' rights that is now taking shape across the Channel. In a big win for workers and trade unions, France’s new president Emmanuel Macron has…
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 supposing on immigration he is right? Theresa May abolished the European Workers Registration scheme in 2013…