Corbyn orders Labour MPs to vote for Brexit bill even if they fail to win a single amendmentAdam Bienkov
The UK's opposition Labour party is divided over Brexit, as unity is limited to supporting an increasingly unlikely vision of a soft Brexit, writes Geoffrey Harris.
Hall was in Strasbourg for a two-day trip. On Wednesday (5 October) he held ajoint press conferencewith FinnWatch and MEPs who had supported his cause. One of them, Green Finnish MEP Heidi Hautala, rejected the statement, saying “The European Parliament has today demanded that the gov...
who led the debate – mentioned the £2,950 maximum compensation figure recommended by the Ombudsman, and even thenonly in passing. Instead, just like the WASPI campaign, the MPs tended to rely on empty platitudes such as “fairness and justice”, and “fair and equitable” or “fair and...
And she says her advice to MPs who have suffered setbacks is always to not give up. This seems a veiled reference to the fact that she was sacked by David Cameron. This is from Huffington Post’sPaul Waugh. I wonder if Caroline Spelman will refer, even obliquely, to claims she was fir...
Labour MPs took to X with a chorus of self-congratulatory backslapping over their heroic Saturday shift for the British Steel vote – as if no one’s ever worked a weekend before. Guido rounds up the worst offenders who somehow found the strength to haul themselves to Westminster. Pass the...
Apart from anything else, he’s one of the diminishing minority of MPs who don’t have a Twitter account, which begs the question: how on earth does he fill his working day? Whatever Mr Vara does get up to in his Ministry office, it doesn’t appear to include reading the ET fees ...
As well as being particularly quiet about Brexit-related issues since becoming Labour leader, Starmer has also largely attempted to sit on the fence when it comes to immigration – with many believing his reluctance to tackle the divisive issues head-on points ...
Labour is deeply divided on Corbyn's leadership and on accepting Brexit, which was strongly supported in its heartlands but was opposed by its MPs. Nationwide opinion polls keep May's centre-right Conservatives 18 points ahead and bookmakers lengthened the odds on Labour winning the 2020...
We may not live in dark times yet, but the sun is going down and the stars seem shy in coming out. Progressives need to stand together now or be swept away by the tide of unpleasantness exemplified, not by the Brexit vote, with which I disagree but understand, but by the clear lurc...