Diane Abbott: Let’s make this a landmark year for women’s reproductive rights
“It has taken over 40 years to extend justice and equality to the women of Northern Ireland on…
Ireland
Labour women support Irish ‘Yes’ vote to repeal the 8th
Polling stations opened at 7am in Ireland today as the country holds a historic referendum on abortion rights.…
This is not a referendum on abortion – ‘Yes’ is a vote for women’s safety
Yesterday, nine Irish women will have travelled to England to terminate a pregnancy. Today millions of Irish voters…
Mike Gapes: The DUP does not speak for Northern Ireland – people there want to stay in the single market
This is the speech given by Mike Gapes, MP for Ilford South, in the Commons debate on the…
Manuel Cortes: May’s latest Brexit fudge reveals Tory chaos on borders and Ireland
So Theresa May has now lost her bottle completely and, in her LBC interview with Iain Dale yesterday,…
The human cost of peace in Northern Ireland has been too painful for it to be just an afterthought to a hard Brexit
“Do I have to call you ‘father’?” asked the IRA man. “Bloody hell, no!” laughed the Muslim cleric,…
Labour forged the Good Friday Agreement – now it has a duty to defend it amid Brexit
It has been some two decades since a Labour government in Westminster, in partnership with Dublin, the SDLP…
Bill Esterson: British ministers must demand our fair share of the Apple tax pie
Apple has been told by the European Commission to pay €13bn (£11bn) in taxes to the Irish government.…
How Labour figures reacted to the Irish referendum result
We now know the result of yesterday’s referendum in Ireland about equal marriage – and it is a…
Tories want to make 1.5 million voters disappear. Labour needs to stop them
Tory backbenchers are trying to remove the vote from 1.5 million people. It isn’t a coincidence that those…
