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The Insider Articles

Haters gonna hate

It has been a fun few weeks for the Labour party, hasn’t it? Let’s briefly recap. Before Christmas this column identified Tom Watson, Angela Eagle and Hilary Benn as the three most direct threats to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Entirely unrelatedly, over Christmas the...
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Truth or dare

Despairing, mutinous, disgusted, shell-shocked, aghast, angry. The adjectives journalists use to describe the mood of Labour members of parliament when it comes to their leader are growing in variety and ferocity. They do not understate the discontent. Two months into...
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Will the real JC please stand up?

Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village The parliamentary Labour party has good reason to feel disoriented. Their party has overwhelmingly given them a leader who has the support of about as many Labour members of parliament are there are Ulster Unionist...
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Insider out

Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village As we are in a new world, perhaps we should rename this column. The insider is now firmly outside, cold and shivering. Sometimes courtiers discover larger forces at work. So it is today. There has been a peasants’...
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Mountain to climb

Mountain to climb

Mar 18, 2016 |

This edition of Progress is being guest-edited and written by women. So this column is dedicated to what I believe the...

Mary, Mary?

Mary, Mary?

Feb 28, 2013 |

A scandal can break a politician’s reputation. But in opposition a good scandal can be the making of them. So it has...

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