Corbyn is mounting a coup d’état against parliamentary democracy
His reforms will cripple his MPs and are a posthumous triumph for Tony Benn’s belief in extra-Parliamentary action.
His reforms will cripple his MPs and are a posthumous triumph for Tony Benn’s belief in extra-Parliamentary action.
It was the former Prime Minister himself who presided over the drawing up of the Article 50 process from which there is no known means of resiling.
The former Prime Minister tells Andrew Marr that politicians should address the underlying concerns which drove the vote.
The American President got elected by infuriating the liberals, but is incapable of governing by the same means.
“I got us into this mess, and I’m going to get her out”, she told MPs earlier this summer. She should say so directly to Party members this autumn.
As possibly the only Brexiteer in the Parliamentary Party’s One Nation group, I am also only too aware that this message must be accompanied by a successful EU negotiation.
And those that never were, such as 1978, 1991 and 2007. Prime Ministers tend to make the opposite error to that of their predecessors.
We have allowed our enemies to infiltrate almost every power centre that matters and delegitimise our very existence.
To the claim that one can’t get ready for the unknown comes the answer that government must prepare for all eventualities.
We must show people how markets can make life better for ordinary families by broadening choice, spurring innovation, and driving down prices.
He wouldn’t have let Cash and Fox, Johnson and Rees-Mogg seize the agenda. He would have fought Farage’s populism as he fought that of Powell.
The Somerset MP strongly supports Theresa May, denies anti-Etonian prejudice in public life, and says a Catholic could perfectly well be PM.
Unresolved questions about refugees, debt crises, security, and general financial instability will force these questions on more people, and not just Britons.
He tells Sophy Ridge that after the election result he now feels there’s a chance that we may stay in the EU after all.
Labour’s newfound enthusiasm for it is hard to square with its nature or history – including the history of how it was opposed by Tony Blair.