Tag Archives: Labour Party

If the Conservatives are to be defeated at the next Westminster election, Labour must back a coalition alternative.     Frances Foley* It’s the open secret of politics in the United Kingdom: its next government will likely involve more than one party. And recently, for the first time progressive party leaders were reported by …

Despite petrol shortages and empty shelves, Labour is adrift—and Johnson may press the Northern Ireland protocol nuclear button. Paul Mason* At my local petrol station, a cadre of young men have suddenly appeared, in high-visibility jackets, to instruct car drivers in the fine art of the jammed-nose-to-tail refill. Each pump …

Labour’s electoral debacle, Paul Mason writes, epitomises European social democracy’s coalition-building challenge. It just doesn’t see it that way. Paul Mason* In British politics, the proverbial penny has finally dropped. With Labour’s abject defeat in the Hartlepool by-election, the party’s loss of council seats in working-class areas—not just to the Conservatives but to the …

‘Brexit’ stemmed from the takeover of the Tory party by its Eurosceptic fringe, whose prejudices will now collide with reality. Kirsty Hughes As 2021 begins, the European Union and the United Kingdom have a new relationship, underpinned by their trade and co-operation agreement. This fracture, damages and complicates economic, political …

Paul Mason explains how, even after the UK has technically left the EU, ‘Brexit’ has escalated into a culture war over immigration. Paul Mason   Two million people saw it live and at least six million have watched it on ‘social media’: last week on the BBC’s prime-time political show, Question …

Why did Labour lose so heavily in the UK? Partly it was ‘Brexit’, partly Corbyn. Nicola Melloni  The UK general election was an unmitigated disaster for Labour, which managed to win the smallest share of seats at Westminster since the 1930s. The Conservative landslide means the party leader, Boris Johnson, …

With the UK facing one of the most important elections in decades, the focus should be on the clear programmatic differences between the main parties, rather than weekly polling outcomes. Lea Ypi * If I were to give unsolicited advice to media pundits preparing to comment on the upcoming general …

The solidly bourgeois Financial Times fears Labour could come to power with a potentially post-capitalist programme. Paul Mason   Thanks to the hubristic incompetence of the new UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, we could be about to see the first major economy in the developed world ruled by a party, or parties, …

Published: 4 April 2018 Country: UK By Eline Jeanne   The past few days have seen the media reporting heavily on Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party, with a focus on antisemitism. This was triggered by a Facebook comment posted a few years ago by Corbyn underneath an image of …