Nobody ever imagined Corbyn would become leader of the Labour Party. Nor that he would survive in that job. Nor that he would turn the tide on May in 2017 and push Labour to over 12 million votes for the first time since 1997. Nor that he would make Labour the biggest party in Europe. […]
You must make up your own minds whether this popular and talented actor was right to confess to evil thoughts he had in the past, which were clearly wrong at every level. Mercifully he never turned the thoughts into action, although had the specific opportunity presented itself, the story might have had a very bad […]
As expected every authority in the European side of the Brexit drama have said no to May. Around her, people tell her hold fast and the EU will crack. But the EU is not her enemy. It is the ERG. This hard core Brexit whatever the cost nationalist wing of the Tory party is little […]
Yesterday was a game changer. And because it was unexpected it was very British. It was also a major victory for May. But it is not a beginning of the end moment. More an end of the beginning, to paraphrase Churchill. In a series of votes on amendments in which many had expected a string […]
The government has failed to deliver a plan which parliament will accept. Given May’s spider’s web of red lines, second guessed as the priorities of Leave voters who were lied to during the referendum campaign, the deal she offered was fair and workable. But a fractious parliament, within which discipline has largely broken down, threw […]