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Brexit means what for immigration?

Prime minister Theresa May gives little away on what Brexit means other than ‘Brexit’. This is no better than saying nothing at all – like ‘gobbledygook is gobbledygook’ – although immigration looked like one area we did know what Brexit means. Sort of. All leading...

Did Labour’s centre-left revival begin in Liverpool?

Following Jeremy Corbyn’s second victory it may be all too easy to assume that ‘things can only get worse’ for the centre-left. While walking past the ‘Cool Britannia’ shops that mark Liverpool’s tourist hotspots, just minutes from Labour’s conference venue, it was...

What’s the red line: immigration or the single market?

To ask what Britain’s ‘national interest’ is has an old-fashioned ring to it. But in the new Brexit era, when we are supposed to be sailing the ocean blue, it is perhaps fitting; perhaps even something Brexiteers would cheer. The ‘debate’ in the lead-up to the 23 June...

Witney to win

Witney and Batley might seem very different places, at either end of England with different political colours. Both face byelections on 20 October, however, and in the words of a great daughter of Labour, there is more in common that unites us than that which divides...