
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.
The vituperative tone of the debate and incredibly factional environment smacks of settling scores rather than learning lessons.
It contains 70 testimonies from current and former Labour staffers, and concludes that “the party is no longer a safe space for Jewish people”.
Alarming statistics – reported this week in the national press and on high-profile social media accounts – about academics leaving the UK were bogus.
When a Labour leader has exhausted their stock of coherent charges, they claim that the Tories are going to sell the Health Service.
Let him carry on what he’s started by exploding the financial framework Labour announced in only two days.
We present some of the Shadow Justice Secretary’s televised highlights to date.
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?
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 Light of Lights looks always on the motive, not the deed; the Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone.”
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.
Class war was the tried and trusted theme. Yet the Labour leader has managed to come across as both weak and extreme.
Corbyn has been wily enough not to plunge into the Brexit trap set for him by Johnson.
The workers being promised fewer hours for the same money would also have to fund huge increases in the cost of public services.
It is not, repeat not, always right to “believe the victim” – precisely because, as in this case, the victim is sometimes not a victim at all.
It seems they hope that if they can weather the antisemitism scandal long enough, it will simply be accepted as background noise.