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A new play explores life after Brexit, when the old parties are swept aside and an irresistible popular movement is born

Michael McManus uses the theatre to explore the potential for an anti-immigrant party to break away not from the Tories, but from Labour.

By Andrew Gimson | 14 June 2018 at 10:00 am | 95 comments

Corbyn trolls his own pro-EU backbenchers over the EEA, while seeking to pick his battles on the Withdrawal Bill

The Opposition is still pursuing its strategy of deliberate ambiguity – while committing to a policy it knows to be “bollocks”.

By Mark Wallace | 6 June 2018 at 2:00 pm | 7 comments

McDonnell’s new spinner wants voters to learn all about the time Livingstone sacked him for messing up London’s finances

He might need to read up on his new boss’s record a little more closely.

By Mark Wallace | 31 May 2018 at 3:54 pm | 72 comments

Labour blast ID checks as “discriminatory”, then require them at their own festival

The Opposition also won’t trust 16- and 17-year-olds to attend unless “accompanied by an adult guardian”, but simultaneously wants to give them the vote.

By Mark Wallace | 29 May 2018 at 12:56 pm | 59 comments

The finely-balanced votes on the Withdrawal Bill amendments come down to how many Labour MPs will abstain

With the Bill expected to return in the week of 11th June, the Government is weighing up which amendments must be fought and which could be defeated.

By Mark Wallace | 24 May 2018 at 4:08 pm | 102 comments

Labour’s strategy of deliberate ambiguity threatens to hobble its policy development

Their solution to the unpopularity of Corbyn’s views is to avoid providing detail. But how can they debate and develop with new ideas while remaining tight-lipped?

By Mark Wallace | 23 May 2018 at 4:25 pm | 18 comments

Cabinet Minister to ConHome: “I am not convinced of a Customs Union majority” in the Commons

“I think we can burn off a few of ours plus get a few Labour votes and, equally important, absentions”, this site is told.

By Paul Goodman | 8 May 2018 at 6:20 am | 95 comments

Might some Labour MPs oppose a customs union? If so, are the Tory whips making contact with them?

Those representing working class seats in the Midlands and North will be nervous of any suggestion that they’re betraying the referendum result.

By Paul Goodman | 7 May 2018 at 6:20 am | 106 comments

Javid has committed a sin for which the Left will never forgive him: success

The new Home Secretary dually offends the twisted illogic of identity politics, and many of Corbyn’s followers hate him for it.

By Mark Wallace | 1 May 2018 at 3:25 pm | 127 comments

Exclusive: Labour council candidate attacks #EnoughIsEnough protests as “Tories after jewish money” and not “real Jews”

Themba Msika, who fought a recent by-election for Labour, also claimed concerns about anti-semitism were “smears” intended to influence the local elections.

By Mark Wallace | 23 April 2018 at 3:00 pm | 17 comments

If there is a Commons vote on Syria, the willingness of Labour rebels to support action could make all the difference

In 2013, Conservative rebels joined with Labour to sink Cameron’s plan. Might the reverse happen five years later?

By Mark Wallace | 13 April 2018 at 4:00 pm | 46 comments

The nine most Barry Gardiner things that Barry Gardiner has ever done

If Barry Gardiner lasts for a thousand years, men will still say: “These were his finest hours”.

By Mark Wallace | 10 April 2018 at 3:55 pm | 26 comments

Exclusive: Labour Party BAME officer shares graphic equating Israel and Nazi Germany

Dorian Bartley, whose day job involves working alongside police to “reduce crime”, also shared conspiracy theories about terrorist attacks in the UK and US.

By Mark Wallace | 9 April 2018 at 3:00 pm | 33 comments

The Tories must keep up the pressure on Corbyn over anti-Semitism

The Labour leader is presiding over a culture which empowers and emboldens racists within his party and without.

By Henry Hill | 24 March 2018 at 12:00 pm | 100 comments

Labour Party staff are brave enough to quit rather than serve Corbynism – why won’t ‘moderate’ Labour MPs do so?

Perhaps they were naive to stay on so long, but at least they had a logical red line and the guts to honour it. Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Labour Party is utterly cowed.

By Mark Wallace | 20 March 2018 at 2:31 pm | 83 comments

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