Pat McFadden MP Articles

Labour’s pro-Europeans must stick to their guns, writes Pat McFadden Labour’s general election defeat means the government’s proposed referendum on British membership of the European Union will go ahead. It is the prime minister’s top priority. It featured strongly in...

When Angela Merkel arrives for talks in London tomorrow she will no doubt be publicly supportive of Britain’s continued membership of the European Union. She has previously made clear Britain is a valued member of the EU and that Germany wants Britain to stay in. On...

Britain’s moorings as a member of the European Union have become looser in recent weeks. It is too early to say yet that we are on the path towards exit, but that prospect seems a little more likely. First there were the European elections, with the United Kingdom...

However many votes the United Kingdom Independence party win in tomorrow’s European elections, what Britain has witnessed in the past few weeks is a battle between the future and the past. The reason many politicians and journalists have struggled to characterise Ukip...