How the Left is exploiting the Coronavirus for political gain
Left-wing activists have suggested there will be “strikes” and “walkouts” if the Government doesn’t cave in to their demands.
Who watches the Watsons?
The former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party abused his parliamentary privileges. Holding the powerful to account means blocking his peerage.
The Left’s shameful history on eugenics
Some of those loudest in denouncing a young Downing Street adviser, seem unaware of the views of their intellectual heroes.
Jess Phillips, Masked Singer?
Her future is 1) Toil away on Labour’s front bench, or 2) Develop a manifesto from the backbenches. Or 3)…
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?