Keir Starmer’s next challenge after the Covid crisis: Stopping a hard Brexit
Unless the Government changes tact then come January 2021 all the predictions made about a hard Brexit will come into play.
Keir Starmer
Why a picture of Princess Diana illustrates the divides in the Corbyn coalition
There is a split between the ‘traditional’ and ‘universalist’ parts of Labour’s coalition which is now coming to the fore, writes Zachary Hardman.
The Battle of Brexit: Brits turn away at prospect of ‘no deal’ but Brexiteers charge on
Even more people are changing their minds on Brexit as the government prepares for a possible ‘no deal’ scenario. But Jacob Rees-Mogg & Co still shun an EU agreement.
Labour’s decision to pull us out of the single market was based on distortion
Labour threw away a chance to defeat the government, writes Molly Scott Cato MEP.
An open letter to Keir Starmer: To avoid a cliff-edge Brexit, back the Lords amendment
Molly Scott Cato MEP reaches beyond party lines and calls for the Shadow Brexit Secretary to support staying in the European Economic Area.
Did Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit chief just confirm Labour is voting against Brexit?
Corbyn’s shadow cabinet has been dogged by accusations from Labour Remainers that it will not oppose a Tory Brexit. But Keir Starmer points in the opposite direction.
The UK is now heading towards staying in the Single Market and the Customs Union
Two developments today have made a soft Brexit much more likely. Things are about to get very interesting indeed.
Labour should champion free movement indefinitely, not just for a “transitional period”
Polls show advocating free movement doesn’t spell electoral suicide — even a majority of Leave voters support it. Labour needs to wake up to this.
May’s dinner fiasco with Juncker shows she has no Brexit plan
The revelations from Theresa May’s dinner with Jean-Claude Juncker last week, and reactions to the Downing Street supper, have blown open the myth, peddled by the Tories and their Hard Brexit, hard-right cheerleaders, of a prime minister with a plan,test
How did Theresa May decide that ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’?
‘Government by mantra’ must stop