Glenis Willmott Articles

Glenis Willmott presents the Labour case for staying in the European Union The European Union referendum in 2016 will see voters make their biggest decision for a generation. And, while the Tories scrap it out, Labour is united. We are united in supporting Britain’s...

We need a Labour case for the EU, not a patriotic case for the EU – a response to Fighting for Britain’s future by Glenis Willmott With David Cameron's long-awaited EU speech taking place later this month likely to promise some sort of European Union referendum,...

Ahead of Cameron's much awaited speech on Britain's role in Europe, Labour's leader in the European Parliament Glenis Willmott MEP says it’s time to make the patriotic case for Britain in Europe. Never mind ‘winter of discontent’, the Tories have had a whole year of...

The crisis of social democracy doesn’t stop at the cliffs of Dover. The late-20th  century bargain between the forces of the market and the revisionist left –  that the private sector would be left to its own devices in return for footing the bill for new Jerusalems –...