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Labour Articles

Labour needs to speak out on Ched Evans case

Labour’s shadow law officers should be speaking out fast and furious about the car crash that was Ched Evans’ acquittal on rape charges. As Vera Baird argues cogently in her Guardian article, the case has put back by 30 years the progress in improving the criminal...

Tackling antisemitism is not a zero-sum game

Tackling antisemitism is not a zero-sum game. The vast majority of people who are worried by the rising levels of antisemitism in our society highlighted by the home affairs select committee report do not want to see the world’s oldest prejudices stamped out at the...

How IndyRef2 could become BrexitRef2

Nicola Sturgeon believes that preparing the legislation for a second referendum on Scottish independence might be a way of calling Theresa May's bluff on Brexit and Scotland's place in the single market. If she tries, the bluff-calling might just be on the other foot....

For yacht’s sake

'For yacht’s sake', Conservative spin doctors were caught mouthing as they hurried through Whitehall. In a parallel universe this morning. On the day it emerged that quitting the European Union would cost £66bn a year, the news that the Tories might give the go-ahead...