Harold Wilson Articles

Roger Liddle's speech to the House of Lords calling on Labour to fight hard Brexit I want to address my brief remarks to my own benches. Whatever our differences on our response to last year’s referendum, we are all with some few exceptions pro-Europeans, including...

Labour cannot claim to govern in the interests of working people while pledging to disregard their wishes, argues Jerome Neil Rarely in the Labour party’s history has it seemed as peripheral to the national discourse as it does now. A recent YouGov poll put the party...

The Labour party must stand with the labour interest – and that means embracing Brexit, writes Jonathan Rutherford Brexit has exposed the cultural and political divisions within the Labour party and its coalition, and it has confounded it. But Brexit is a profound...

I have been struck talking to new party members how often I have heard variations on the sentiment 'I couldn’t be an elected politician, I couldn’t compromise my beliefs'. There is admiration for Jeremy Corbyn, based on his refusal to compromise, but also a...