No way forward is without risk at this stage. But the least hazardous course is for the Party to step out soon with a new leader.
Our Executive Editor discusses disillusioned members, internal democracy, and allegations of UKIP infiltration on BBC Radio Four.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRA, Assad, Maduro, dodgy Czech ‘diplomats’, Iranian propagandists….the list goes on.
Cooper/Letwin is back, supported by Labour and Tory Europhiles as well as the Liberal Democrats, the Independent Group, and Scottish and Welsh nationalists.
There’s a Conservative/Labour/Democratic Unionist push to rule out a second referendum and Benn leads the charge for Cooper/Letwin.
In addition to ‘Malthouse II’ and the Spelman/Dromey Amendment are several tabled by the Independent Group and nationalist parties.
This growing confidence will reflect the greater negative impact that respondents expect the Independent Group to have on Labour.
If her revised plan fails, the most likely outcomes are an even softer Brexit or a second referendum.
Davidson has parked the Conservatives there – and the emergence of the Independent Group opens up new opportunities.
Tory difficulties are bound up with Brexit. Labour’s stretch wider, and are part of wider ones for social democratic and democratic socialist parties.
It rarely worked for the Conservatives when they tried to out-UKIP UKIP.
“Everything really depends on whether either of the two major parties, the Conservatives or the Labour Party, can put themselves back together.
At the same time, my research shows some of the hurdles any theoretical new movement will have to cross if it is to survive contact with reality.