The fallout from Corbyn’s Trident comments starts to contaminate the Labour Party
His Shadow Defence Secretary, Shadow Foreign Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary publicly disagree with him.
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Corbyn’s conference speech: Underwhelmingly, inevitably dull
The Labour leader suffers from the stultifying political environment in which he has spent the last thirty years.
McDonnell’s speech suggests the Labour establishment are winning
Corbyn has retreated on NATO and the EU, been slapped down on Trident, and now his Shadow Chancellor has delivered a speech the old leadership could have written.
Now we’ll see if the far left is serious about capturing Labour
It looks so far as if Labour MPs have managed to slip a leash on their boss’s radical instincts. Has he realised he can’t overcome them, or was it merely a tactical retreat?
Shami Chakrabarti’s praise for Sturgeon shows that Liberty has lost interest in liberty
Appearing on stage with the First Minister, the pressure group’s Director conveniently neglected to mention the SNP’s assault on freedom.
Corbyn is no boon to Scottish Labour
If the party is fool or coward enough to chase the SNP onto its philosophical home ground, it is just teeing itself up for annihilation.
In defence of Corbyn
The new Labour leader is easily mocked. But he has done us the service of expressing, in Parliament, a widespread mood of febrile dissatisfaction.
What Corbyn thinks about education
It’s no surprise that he plans a massive centralisation programme, regardless of the cost to children or taxpayers.
What Corbyn thinks about foreign policy
From the Falklands to the Middle East, he’s reliably on the wrong side.
What Corbyn thinks about work and welfare
From opposing the benefits cap to seeking to squeeze more tax out of small businesses, his ideas would destroy jobs.
What Corbyn thinks about economics
From a love of higher spending and borrowing, through to higher taxes and mass nationalisations, even his colleagues think he would be a disaster.
What Corbyn thinks about defence
From abolishing the Army to withdrawing from NATO, here are the five key things you need to know about the Leader of the Opposition.
The Labour MP who says that hate helps to drive him – and his colleagues
That’s Toby Perkins of Chesterfield. And they claim that we’re the Nasty Party.
Labour has failed itself and the nation – eleven observations on Jeremy Corbyn’s victory
The Opposition is a fundamentally changed Party – which means this is only the beginning of a ride that will be both funny and deadly serious.
From 1979 to now, Labour’s declining powers of self-interrogation
If Corbyn triumphs today, it will be because his party stopped criticising itself in any meaningful way.