Labour
Is this the beginning of the end for Jeremy Corbyn?
Did Labour’s conference help or hinder Jeremy Corbyn’s chances of becoming prime minister? For some, Corbyn ended up stronger than…
Boris Johnson would be foolish to underestimate Labour
In the next election, as in the last one, McDonnellism will prove a serious challenge to the Tories. John McDonnell,…
Tories should be terrified of John McDonnell
Once again, question marks surround Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. This is not new. While I was at 10 Downing Street, with the small…
Is Jeremy Corbyn preparing to purge moderate Labour MPs?
Ahead of the looming general election, moderate Labour MPs are understandably upset by an instruction they say the party has given to…
When it comes to Brexit, everything that can be tried will always fail
It is all beginning to feel like the closing scenes of the 1980 spoof comedy film Airplane! In particular the…
Will Labour MPs really back a general election?
There’s an assumption in Westminster that the Labour Party would have to back a snap general election if Boris Johnson…
What will the Tory and Labour election campaigns look like?
We know that the Conservatives are gearing up for an election in the next few months. Their official line is…
By taking on grouse-shooting, Labour is risking rural jobs
The Glorious Twelfth this year, signalling the start of the grouse-shooting season, was overshadowed by a Labour party press release…
The real reason Corbynites turned on Caroline Lucas and the Greens
Caroline Lucas’s plan for an all-female emergency Cabinet to stop a no-deal Brexit is a fantasy, with no prospect of success.…
How Tom Watson reinvented himself to become the new challenger to Corbyn
Tom Watson has had more reinventions than Kylie Minogue has had mid-performance outfit changes. His performances over the years have…
Cutting out Corbyn: could Tom Watson’s centrist ‘Momentum’ save Labour?
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected as leader of the Labour party, many of his MPs have dreamed of deposing…
The only way to solve Labour’s anti-Semitism problem
‘The Labour Party welcomes everyone* irrespective of race, creed, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. (except, it seems, Jews)’. So…
The Tories can profit from Labour panic
In some alternative universe the Labour party, as under Tony Blair in the mid 1990s, is busily preparing for government,…
What would a Corbyn victory mean for me?
Until now, I haven’t been too worried about Jeremy Corbyn. True, he exceeded expectations two years ago, but that was…
My encounter with Young Labour makes me fear for the party’s future
To understand the decay of the Labour Party since 2015, look no further than its London youth wing. London Young…
Revealed: How Jeremy Corbyn is ‘training for power’
Tories beware – Jeremy Corbyn is in ‘training for power’. But the Labour leader isn’t readying himself for Downing Street…
Portrait of the week: Resignations galore, Honda’s announcement and Islamic State’s brides
Home Seven MPs resigned from the Labour party and sat in the Commons (next to the DUP) as the Independent…
Letters: the history of centrist parties does not bode well for the ‘breakaway seven’
The breakaway seven Sir: ‘In both parties there are fools at one end and crackpots at the other, but the…
Westminster’s splitting headache: who will quit next?
The first thing to note about the ‘South Bank seven’ is that they are nothing like the four former Labour…
There’s space for a new party in Britain, but not for another SDP
I was 17 when the Labour party last split, in January 1981, and for a variety of reasons got quite…
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Jess Phillips: The message I’ve been forced to send Luciana Berger too many times
‘You OK?’ was the message I sent to Luciana Berger last week. As I scroll back through our previous WhatsApp…
The Corbyn crack-up
To say that the May administration is ‘the worst government anyone can remember’ is to abuse the English language. It…
It’s not communist buildings that are bleak – it’s capitalist budget hotel chains
A few of us on the Labour left decide to see if it is possible to conjure, from nowhere, a…
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Lyric Theatre’s Dick Whittington is the opposite of festive garbage
One of the biggest stars of the 1970s was the professional lard-bucket Mick McManus, who plied his trade as an…
Portrait of the week: Theresa May goes to Africa, Labour accused of anti-Semitism (again) and John McCain dies
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, flew off to South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria accompanied by a trade delegation. In…
