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Lewis Baston Articles

Time to repay our debt to Kurdistan

With some imaginative, practical and humane support, Britain can deter threats to Kurdistan's safety in the wake of its independence referendum, reports Lewis Baston I am interested in elections, and that is what took me to Iraq. I was privileged to observe the...

No silver lining

The Copeland and Stoke byelection results were historically bad for Labour, says Lewis Baston —The byelection results from Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central are a shaming, mortifying embarrassment to the Labour party. There is no gloss that can be applied to excuse...

A dash of southern comfort?

I come from Southampton. I was very surprised, and pleased, by Labour’s success in defending control of the city council in the 2016 elections. Many Southampton wards are marginal, and the city’s voters can sometimes get brutal with parties that displease them. It is...

A contest fought between Labour and Ukip

Harry Harpham, who died on 4 February, had a tragically short period representing Sheffield constituency of Brightside and Hillsborough. He was widely respected and liked in Sheffield, a city he cherished as the place where he got an education and served as a...