Labour won Tory seats with a stirring campaign – but danger lurks in the detail of both parties’ spending plans
General election 2017 (seats won compared with 2015): Conservatives: 318 (-13) Labour: 262 (+30) SNP: 35 (-21) Lib…
Brian Barder
This may be our one chance: Labour MPs have a duty to vote against article 50
Those of us who remain convinced that Britain’s place and future should be in the European Union with…
The EU referendum was purely advisory – Labour MPs must be brave and be prepared to vote against article 50
Writing this in New York just before a US presidential election of global significance, it is easy to…
Don’t let Boris appease the Tory right – a former diplomat writes to Emily Thornberry
Dear Emily, This letter assumes that Britain will have expelled itself from the EU within a few years,…
Brexit: let the people decide on the terms we are offered
Did the EU in/out referendum on 23 June pronounce the last word on whether the UK remains in…
It is time to talk to the SNP about how we would make a minority Labour government work
Labour’s showing in the 2016 elections was terrible, but not bad enough to precipitate a change of leadership and…
Labour MPs must not curb my right to vote for Eagle or Smith – members deserve to choose between two challengers
I am a member of the Labour party and a supporter of virtually any member of the…
Dear Jeremy… please speak up again and again for Britain’s place in Europe, a former British ambassador writes
Dear Mr Corbyn – or may I, a non-Corbynista, call you Jeremy? I am one of the many…
Choosing Labour’s leader: a simple guide
In case you have a vote for the Labour party leadership election and haven’t yet voted, here, in…
Bombing Syria: parliament, a myth, and four conditions before we go to war again
Just one of those things which everyone knows but which ain’t so: that in 2013 the House of…
