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Learning lessons

The Labour party had to change. Not just that thirteen years of government had seen us appear uncertain about new policy ideas, but also that those engaged in the party – and I count myself in this – were sometimes too focused on influencing those at the top of our...

Parliament faces an impossible choice

Members of parliament will soon be faced with an impossible choice. Either reject the outcome of the Brexit referendum; or comply with the public's instruction but simultaneously, exceed the scope of their mandate. That conundrum has not yet entered the public...

The wheels come off the Boris wagon

Today’s announcement that Boris Johnson will not be putting himself forward as a candidate in the Conservative leadership election brought welcome relief in the headlines from Labour’s own trials and tribulations. Boris Johnson is a populist politician. The type of...

Words matter

It is a week now since Britain changed significantly and quite possibly for at least the rest of our lifetimes. There is very little doubt that for any of us – it does not even matter which political party that you support – the political landscape in the immortal...