Tories and Labour

Boris Johnson is stealing so many of Labour’s clothes that the opposition will soon not have many left. As he announced the final go-ahead for the HS2 project which began life under Labour in 2009, I scribbled a list of Johnson’s purloined goodies. “Borrowing for investment”, with £100bn of infrastructure projects in next…

Image copyrightGetty Images The new Labour leader faces a huge task. The party's performance at the 2019 General Election was its worst since 1935. Battered over Brexit, losing support in previous strongholds, and led by Jeremy Corbyn whose personal rating…

Former Commons speaker John Bercow may himself be a victim of bullying following the Tories’ decision to refuse to award him a peerage, a shadow minister has said. Labour deputy leadership candidate Dawn Butler said the Conservatives’ decision to depart with tradition and not give Mr Bercow a peerage after his decade in…

Dawn Butler Accuses Tories of Bullying Bercow The Labour Party continue to show they’re the true party of workers’ rights, with their ongoing defence of serial abuser (if the accusations from his officials are to be believed) John Bercow. Following Diane Abbott’s claim earlier this week that Black Rod –…

Last year, the EU adopted the incredibly controversial Copyright Directive (it passed by only five votes, and afterwards 10 MEPs said they'd got confused and pushed the wrong buttons!): now, EU member states have to create rules that require online platforms …

In​ ‘After the Landslide’, a newsletter written shortly after Labour’s defeat in the 1983 general election, the Labour Co-ordinating Committee, a faction within the party, argued that any conversation about the future must acknowledge two things: ‘the sheer depth of our defeat, and the shallowness of much party reaction to…

The real test for Boris Johnson’s commitment to the north will not be whether he holds a cabinet meeting there (he will do so on 31 January, to mark Brexit day), or even moves the House of Lords to York (which he probably won’t, despite the headlines). The test will…

When the British parliament asked the government in 2019 to publish the messages that key officials were sending to each other about Brexit via text message, email, Facebook, and messaging apps, it drew attention to the extent to which elected officials have been sidestepping official channels in their communications. The…