Labour leadership contenders are lurching to the Left to placate Corbynistas
The dismay the electorate showed for them last is being ignored. That makes it much harder for whoever becomes the Leader of the Opposition to establish any credibility.
All the Labour leadership contenders have a credibility gap in their condemnations of anti-semitism
They knew that British Jews were frightened of the prospect of a Corbyn Government. They knew those fears were valid. Yet Phillips and Nandy carried on campaigning.
The Lib Dems are down, but not out
More important than the choice of new Leader, will be to decide what the Party stands for after Brexit.
Will Starmer prove to be the new Kinnock?
After the 1983 defeat, Labour’s electoral progress was slow. This time around the Party will face further decline without a bold change in direction.
Labour’s civil war is set to get worse before it gets better
The vituperative tone of the debate and incredibly factional environment smacks of settling scores rather than learning lessons.
Read the Jewish Labour Movement’s submission on anti-semitism in their party
It contains 70 testimonies from current and former Labour staffers, and concludes that “the party is no longer a safe space for Jewish people”.
Exclusive: The Liberal Democrats’ untrue claims about a “Brexit brain drain” at British universities
Alarming statistics – reported this week in the national press and on high-profile social media accounts – about academics leaving the UK were bogus.
On the NHS, Corbyn has deployed his weapon of last resort with two weeks to go
When a Labour leader has exhausted their stock of coherent charges, they claim that the Tories are going to sell the Health Service.
An idea for McDonnell. Pledge £1 million to every voter in Britain.
Let him carry on what he’s started by exploding the financial framework Labour announced in only two days.
Six of the best Burgonisms
We present some of the Shadow Justice Secretary’s televised highlights to date.
The Labour manifesto: “incredible”/”simply not credible”, “fully costed”/not fully costed
Their manifesto doesn’t provide any costings for their most expensive plans. The IFS says their tax pledge is not believable. But will they get away with it?
Swinson’s ‘bicep-kissing’ strategy does not appear to be working
The Lib Dem leader’s approach has a logic to it, but it is risky. But instead of delivering a surge, her numbers are on the slide.
The abuse scandal revealed Watson as either fool or knave – either ought to mean the end of his career
“The Light of Lights looks always on the motive, not the deed; the Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone.”
The Left uses far worse language about the Tories than Johnson would ever use about the Benn Act
The Prime Minister’s opponents are entirely within their rights to condemn his choice of words, but not to the useful lie that he’s breaking new ground.
Corbyn’s speech showed his fear of losing his anti-establishment street cred
Class war was the tried and trusted theme. Yet the Labour leader has managed to come across as both weak and extreme.