Italy’s spat with France shows the EU is at threat not of disintegration but of hijack

Will fans of the EU establishment be quite so keen on unaccountable, centralised institutions when their opponents start appointing commissioners?

Corbyn’s Brexit tightrope gets ever thinner, and the wind is getting up

He evidently believes that the Government will teeter before he does, and that his backbench Europhiles lack the gumption to move against him.

Thornberry can’t “guarantee” her foreign policy won’t indulge human rights abusers when Corbyn does exactly that

The Shadow Foreign Secretary is making pledges her leader seems unlikely to honour.

Five crucial implications of Labour’s membership decline

Losing 150,000 members, and the money that comes with them, has knock-on effects for the Opposition and for the Conservative Party.

Grantham and Stamford Association Chairman expects proceedings against Boles to begin next week

The latest email to local members confirms ConservativeHome’s recent report.

Our survey. More than eight in ten Conservative members oppose extending Article 50.

The level of opposition is a shade higher than it was a fortnight ago.

Labour’s strategy of Brexit ambiguity is coming under more and more pressure

On the Cooper amendment, 25 Labour MPs either rebelled or abstained – including half a dozen shadow ministers.

The eight Tory MPs who rebelled to vote against the Brady amendment

The amendment passed by 317 to 301 – and seven Labour MPs rebelled to back it.

The 17 Conservative MPs who rebelled to vote for the Spelman amendment

In the night’s only defeat for the Government, it passed by 318 votes to 310 – and with the largest rebellion from Conservative MPs.

The 12 Tory MPs who supported the Reeves amendment (a two-year Article 50 extension)

Despite their support, the amendment fell by 322 to 290 votes.

The 15 Conservative MPs who backed the Grieve amendment

The proposal was defeated by 321 to 301 votes.

The 17 Tory MPs who rebelled to support the Cooper amendment

Freeman joins the rebellion. But the amendment fell by 321 to 298.

Newslinks for Tuesday 29th January 2019

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Six cautionary lessons from Macron’s France

Maybe this new-party-with-a-charismatic-leader thing isn’t as easy as people imagined.

Trouble in Grantham – Boles’s association executive intends to accelerate deselection proceedings against him

He would have the right to a full ballot of the local membership. But an already strained local relationship, combined with Brexit, makes it an uphill struggle.