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Christabel Cooper Articles

Labour must offer a ‘better Brexit’

Build a winning coalition of Remain and Leave voters is possible if Labour displays the competence to deliver a better post-Brexit Britain than Theresa May, argues Christabel Cooper It seems a very long time ago that the United Kingdom Independence party was regarded...

Philip Hammond’s deficit denial

With a hard Brexit looming, the government is keen to forget all about the deficit – it is Labour's job to make sure it does not, argues Christabel Cooper Back in the summer of 2015 – those halcyon days when Labour were a piffling eight points behind in the opinion...

Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister

Rosa Prince’s uncritical biography does little to uncover the real prime minister, finds Christabel Cooper ‘The Enigmatic Prime Minister’ is a highly appropriate subtitle for this new biography of Theresa May. Huge contradictions continue to surround her: between the...

Preventing a disastrous Brexit

Labour must accept the result of the referendum, but it does not have to accept Theresa May's warped version of Brexit, argues Christabel Cooper Much of Theresa May’s Brexit speech two weeks ago came as little surprise. The announcement that the United Kingdom would...