On this morning’s Today programme, John McDonnell was once again arguing Labour’s case that a General Election was one way in which the electorate could make a decision on a Brexit deal – an option that Labour clearly prefers to another referendum on any deal that Theresa May might conclude. There are, however, both theoretical […]
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At the weekend, I was in the audience for a talk by Will Hutton, formerly of the Guardian and now Principal of Hertford College, Oxford – but, more importantly, for a generation a critical and powerful voice on the centre-left. The talk was part of the Cardiff Book Festival and was linked to the book […]
Last night, the Enfield North constituency Labour Party passed a vote of no confidence in its MP, Joan Ryan, who is the Chair of the Labour Friends of Israel. What was perhaps most notable about this meeting was the fact that it was streamed and live-tweeted by the Iranian state TV service, Press TV. There […]
The news that Frank Field, long-serving Labour MP for Birkenhead, has resigned the Labour whip, has generated a deluge of comment, including the predictable attacks from the Corbynist left. Field’s resignation letter cites antisemitism and a culture of intolerance and bullying as the reasons for his departure – in which he is far from alone; […]
Yesterday, Westminster Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn came to Wales to address a meeting in Tredegar commemorating the 70th anniversary of the NHS. He also addressed a meeting in Barry, and later issued the following tweet: There are, of course, two problems with this. First, the Tories don’t run the NHS in Wales. It’s run by […]
The First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, announced this afternoon that he would stand down in the Autumn. As he departs it is worth considering his record in Government – a Labour leader who, in difficult years for the Party across the UK, won two national elections; who delivered in its entirety the election on […]
With allegations that Labour has increasingly become an anti-Semitic political party now widespread in the media, Jeremy Corbyn has written to all Labour Party members arguing that anti-Semitism has no place in the Labour Party. It is, on the surface, a powerful and emphatic statement that there will be zero tolerance within the Labour Party. […]
