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It is, of course, a drama manufactured almost entirely by the right wing of British politics. An unpopular Conservative prime minister, running scared of his hard-right backbenchers, takes the gamble of his political life and loses. A…
I am somewhat shocked that a man with a reputation for intellectual rigour should throw so many distortions, half truths and lies into his attempt to "launch the Brexit fightback" after a miserable week. Michael Gove started his Times piece…
Like Britain, the EU isn't perfect. Political battles need to be fought at European level, just as at national level, to change things. But our economic and environmental interdependence with our neighbouring countries makes such battles at…
Across Europe – from Spain to Scotland, from the Labour leadership contest to the situation in Greece – this is turning into a central political question. No party of the left can support savage cuts to essential benefits, nor to vital…
It's not just in word but deed that UKIP's mask slipped again this week. Plenty of coverage has been given to Nigel Farage's shocking remarks about scrapping Britain's anti-discrimination laws, less so to UKIP's recent voting record in the…
There can be few starker illustrations of the deep divide in the Conservative party over Europe than to compare the two set-piece speeches made almost simultaneously last week by David Cameron in Birmingham and Jonathan Hill in Brussels…
As a pro-European following the recent televised debates on the EU, it was hard to know whether to sympathise or despair at the sight of a desperately unpopular deputy prime minister trying to hold onto a pro-European argument while…
By Richard Corbett MEP 1. Labour MEPs believe in fairness. The common market needs fair rules if it is not to be an unregulated playground for short-term commercial interests at the expense of workers, consumers and families. 2. Labour MEPs…
By Richard Corbett MEP 1. "Why can't we have our own MEP?" You do - you have six of them. We elect MEPs by region - Yorkshire and the Humber has six - shared out among the parties in proportion to the number of votes each party gets. All…
By Richard Corbett It is probably fair to say that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is an institution not used to hitting the headlines. However, its recent judgments in the Viking, Laval and Rüffert cases, have understandably given rise…
