Labour’s tax cuts rebellion – and the “principled” Tory minister who resigned over FOBTs
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Smith succeeds at the start – MPs looked to Iraq as crown slipped away from Eagle
Three becomes two. Angela Eagle’s withdrawal from the Labour leadership race finally gives us the head-to-head contest which…
Eagle: Britain was right to attack Libya
Angela Eagle stood by voting against an investigation into Iraq ahead of the summer leadership contest. The leadership…
Smith: My regret over welfare bill vote
Owen Smith has said he regrets abstaining on the controversial Tory Welfare Bill at second reading last summer,…
Owen Smith: Labour’s new challenger from the soft left
Owen Smith is a relative newcomer in the Labour family – but the Welsh MP, elected in 2010…
5 things we learned from ‘The Corbyn earthquake’
It already might seem like a summer from the distant past, but Labour’s leader contest only came to…
The uncredible shrinking party: Labour’s sliding irrelevance
Labour is a shrunken Party. Shrunken not just by objective measures such as seats and vote share, but…
Abstaining on the welfare bill was sensible – Labour must keep its eyes on the prize: winning
A party deeply divided. This is how the media portrays Labour and it plays directly into the hands…
Labour didn’t need to abstain on the welfare vote
Repeat after me – Britain isn’t broke. Welfare for the third child in middle-income families is not an…
Why I voted against the welfare reform and work bill
Last night I joined 47 of my colleagues in opposing the governments’ Welfare Reform and Work Bill and…
