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.
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.
Blair’s Brexit redemption moment. Amen! Alleluia! (Just don’t mention the I – – q W – r.)
A first-time voter in 2022 will have been born in 2004, a year after the start of the conflict, and have no memory of weapons of mass destruction…
On Brexit, Labour is working hard to remain absolutely, certainly, unequivocally…undecided
Corbyn is intensely vague on the topic – and is doing his very best to remain so.
Corbyn’s lack of urgency on Brexit comes from the blunt fact that it isn’t his priority
If anything, the longer it drags on, the closer he believes he is coming to achieving his real goal.
Ashdown laid the foundations for both the triumphs and trials of the Liberal Democrats
His focus on leftish politics and local campaigning built the party into a potent force, but left it badly exposed to the dangers of coalition with the Conservatives.
The Prime Minister’s run-out-the-clock strategy on Brexit helps Corbyn too
The Labour leader is under mounting pressure to support a second referendum – but time is against one, and he knows it.
Is the Marxist Shadow Chancellor really backing tax cuts for the rich?
The Budget has prompted further disarray in the Labour Party. But they do show a willingness to “compromise with the electorate”.
Socialism’s new and confused bastion: Teen Vogue
The magazine has taken a break from conspicuous consumption to blunder instead through the world of history and economics.
Corbyn has upped his rhetorical game – and he appears to be developing his political savvy a bit, too
His promises are unaffordable, and his spending plans are reckless, but he has started to offer retail policies.
Starmer chances his arm by challenging McDonnell and McCluskey over Brexit
It’s a bold gambit. The Labour Party may be changing, but the people the Shadow Brexit Secretary is taking on still have claws.
McDonnell is more dangerous than Corbyn – not just because he’s more extreme, but because he is more intelligent
Even the Labour Party itself seems aware that the Shadow Chancellor is visibly more wily than his leader.
On the question of a second referendum, Labour’s easiest answer is yet more careful, deniable ambiguity
Corbyn is willing to bend his principles. But he and his advisers will cling more closely to their strategy of being all things to all sides.
Labour’s reaction to Salzburg: full statement
If the test is Starmer’s Twitter feed, there’s nothing at all as of 11am. There was no Labour spokesman on “Today” either.
Tick tock tick tock – time for a second EU referendum is running out
But here’s how Labour could attempt a risky manoeuvre next week – by promising a second poll while being powerless to deliver one.