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There are many strong candidates in the Labour leadership and deputy leadership races. As leader of Labour’s MEPs, I have, of course, worked very closely with Keir Starmer in his shadow cabinet Brexit role, but I have also seen first hand…
As Labour digests its election defeat, it is right to take time to reflect and to analyse. Sadly, some are already trying to play a blame game and point the finger at our Brexit policy, perhaps to avoid other factors being blamed. Some…
No party can claim to be a paragon of consistency on the ongoing Brexit saga with its twists and turns, and with many politicians surprised that public opinion has not rallied behind the result of the 2016 referendum but in fact shifted the…
Labour’s position on Brexit is not as complicated as some of the media portray it. There is just one aspect of one scenario that is perceived as ambiguous. The current stance is essentially: Labour supports having a referendum on any…
Steve Hudson (Thursday's LabourList) is right to ask why Labour MEPs voted, along with the bulk of our socialist comrades in the European parliament, to allow the nomination of Ursula von der Leyen – a Christian Democrat – as potential…
The European election results were not good for Labour, halving our number of seats from 20 to 10 and losing valued colleagues, from the longest-serving MEP (David Martin from Scotland) to one of the most recent (Wajid Khan from the North…
There is undeniable logic to Labour coming out in favour of another referendum on Brexit. We don't want a catastrophic no-deal Brexit, we don't want Theresa May's deal, we have tried putting forward an alternative plan but it hasn't been…
Some Labour MPs are hesitant about holding another EU referendum. Although we understand their caution, the arguments simply don’t stack up. 1. “We’ve had one referendum already and cannot have another.” Without second referendums…
Whatever happens in terms of Theresa May, general elections, and parliamentary twists and turns, we will still be faced with what to do about Brexit. If we don’t want to leave without a deal (and we don’t, for good reasons), and we also…
Although Labour said it respects the outcome of the referendum, that was not because we think it was the right result (we had campaigned on the other side, believing that Brexit is bad for Britain), but in order to respect the will of the…
Labour's Brexit resolution, freshly adopted at conference 2018, is already subject to divergent interpretations. Let’s look carefully at what it says. First, it states that Labour must vote against the Tory Brexit deal unless it meets…
The internal debate in Labour about what relationship we want with the single market (irrespective of whether or not it is through the EEA) has turned in part on the question of whether it entails continued reciprocal freedom of movement…
