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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...
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...
Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister
Rosa Prince’s uncritical biography does little to uncover the real prime minister, finds Christabel Cooper ‘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...
Defending diversity
If there is any philosophy underpinning Donald Trump’s assorted ramblings, it is the idea imported from his...
In defence of pollsters
Social liberals and anyone on the progressive side of politics were not the only people to have a terrible night on...
There is no mandate for hard Brexit
I remember the morning of 23 June very well. I remember leaving home to run a committee room in west London in a state...
Unity should be earned, not demanded
Who doesn’t want a unified Labour party? It is obvious that civil war costs us dearly. Following Jeremy Corbyn’s...
Early evening socialism
Like many working mothers, the news that I was the victim of discrimination by being excluded (because of my gender)...
The real meaning of #traingate
Is a train completely full only when every seat is occupied by a live human being, or is a train full when all the...
MPs are not the enemy
In the days after the murder of Jo Cox, members of parliament became human again. Suddenly our parliamentarians were...