The Last Word Articles

The new establishment cannot be trusted with Brexit, writes Robert Philpot On Wednesday night, in what is fast becoming a regular feature of the parliamentary calendar, Jeremy Corbyn once again ordered Labour members of parliament not to support a motion to keep...

Even silence from the Labour frontbench on the Iranian protests was preferable to the subsequent vocalised equivocation, argues Robert Philpot Last weekend Emily Thornberry broke the Labour leadership’s virtual silence on the new year protests in Iran. It would have...

2018 needs to be the year that those opposed to the degradation of political discourse assert themselves once more, argues Robert Philpot As 2016 drew to a close, the sinister forces of populism seemed to be sweeping all before them. Britain’s vote to leave the...

Steve Bannon lost the Republicans a safe seat, writes The Last Word columnist Robert Philpot When the histories of Donald Trump’s presidency are written, Ray Moore’s defeat in the Alabama special election this week may come to be seen as a turning point. Alabama was...