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Ben Bradshaw MP Articles

It’s time to stop debating about debates

Will they, won’t they? If so, will it be 3x3 or 2+2? Following the recent debates about Europe between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, the discussions and speculation about the leaders’ TV debates has begun. Clegg wants to debate with Ed Miliband and David Cameron....
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Just where a modern centre-left party needs to be

Labour is now exactly where a modern, progressive centre-left party should be on Europe: unequivocally in favour of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, while building alliances for reform and guaranteeing an in-out referendum in the unlikely event of...
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Notes on a crisis

Parliament did not vote against military action in Syria Ben Bradshaw —As I write, the world appears to have stepped back from the brink over Syria. The ‘offer’ from Russia, ‘agreed’ to by Bashar al-Assad, to hand over his chemical weapons paused what had felt like an...
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Referendum folly

Tony Blair reminded us of his political genius and why he won three general elections when he mocked David Cameron’s Europe speech comparing the prime minister to the sheriff in the comedy western Blazing Saddles who points a gun at his own head and says: ‘You do what...
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