Roger Liddle Articles

Labour peer Roger Liddle sets out why he felt forced to break the party whip over Brexit for the first time in his storied career Since I got in the Lords I have always loyally voted the party whip (making my views known behind the scenes when I had reservations about...

Jeremy Corbyn, and his opposition to all things nuclear, is to blame for Labour's historic defeat in the Copeland byelection, argues Roger Liddle Labour has held Copeland and its very similar predecessor constituency of Whitehaven, continuously since 1935. 82 years...

Roger Liddle's speech to the House of Lords calling on Labour to fight hard Brexit I want to address my brief remarks to my own benches. Whatever our differences on our response to last year’s referendum, we are all with some few exceptions pro-Europeans, including...

Ed Balls’ Speaking Out will be regarded as one of best written and readable political autobiographies of his generation. It is not in the class of Denis Healey’s The Time of My Life, though there are some interesting parallels between Balls and Healey – serious...