Roy Jenkins Articles

Matthew Doyle is (mostly) impressed by Steve Waters' compelling drama Politics and theatre have long fed off one another and the attempt to ‘break the mould’ of Britain’s two dominant parties has been turned into a rewarding tale at the Donmar Warehouse by Steve...

Steve Waters' new play about the 'gang of four' is a reminder that Labour has looked over the precipice before – and recovered, writes Progress director Richard Angell 'Labour's f*cked', pronounces David Owen at the start of Steve Waters’ new play at the Donmar...

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...

One of the most famous ‘Eurosceptic’ speeches in the last century was delivered by Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell at Labour’s annual conference in October 1962, where he declared that joining the then ‘European Community’ would ‘mean the end of Britain as an independent...