Long-Read

There is a better Brexit strategy available to Labour

— With Labour looking like a government in waiting, the understandable caution of its Brexit policy faces calls to be bolder. Actually, it just needs to be more imaginative, Professor Chris Grey argues.

Long-Read

Our politics is incapable of responding to the failure of Brexit

— Professor Chris Grey’s latest Brexit analysis on why despite last-ditch attempts by Brexiters to redefine ‘success’, the public view has settled that Brexit has failed. But for now, our politics is incapable of responding to the failure of Brexit.

UK Politics

Is Labour’s vision of a New Britain any different to the Tories’ levelling up?

— The plan to abolish the House of Lords has drawn the most attention but Labour is also proposing radical changes to how power is distributed.

UK Politics

Winter of discontent: How similar is today’s situation?

— With everyone from rail workers to civil servants going on strike over the winter, it’s hard to see this ending well. To say the least, Rishi Sunak’s government is in a very difficult position.

OPINION

Labour’s same old waffle on Lords reform

— Labour promising yet again to abolish the House of Lords is just more of the same old waffle, which will lead to an upper chamber which serves the interests of the government of the day.

OPINION

Preparing to win the next UK General Election

— It is safe to say now that the Conservative party has made a catastrophic mistake by choosing Liz Truss as its leader and as Prime Minister.

UK Politics

Keir Starmer needs to tell a bolder story about Britain’s future to convince voters to back him

— Keir Starmer has never made the creation of a story of us central to his leadership; his storytelling is an occasional practice. When he brings it out, his instincts are spot on, but so far he has lacked the courage of his convictions.

UK Politics

Why Labour will resist calls for electoral alliances, even when facing the prospect of a hung parliament

— Forming a pact with the Liberal Democrats to form a ‘Progressive Alliance’ would make electoral sense in England – but Keir Starmer does not see it as a risk worth taking.

UK Politics

Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government?

— There’s a mountain to climb but there are positive signs for the opposition in the first few weeks of Liz Truss’s government.

Brexit

How might Labour’s Brexit policy be made to work?

— Professor Chris Grey’s analysis on how Keir Starmer's timid policy could become less constipated, the implications of his foolish stance on post-election cooperation and the best/worst scenarios that follow.

Analysis

What ethical standards should we hold politicians to?

— Is a “good” politician one who is good at making dirty deals and engages in sleazy behaviour only in their personal life, or is unethical behaviour in personal life likely to translate into bad ethical character in public life?

Analysis

What Keir Starmer could learn from Neil Kinnock to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s woes.

— Kinnock lost two elections as Labour leader. Starmer could learn a lot from his successes and failures.

UK Local Elections

Local elections 2022: Your complete guide to the votes happening across the UK.

— What to expect for Labour and Conservatives in England and Wales, as the pressure keeps mounting on Boris Johnson? What about Northern Ireland where Sinn Féin are favourite to become the largest party?

COMMENT

Every ‘journalist’ pushing the Starmer Beergate story must know it to be false.

— What are the media and journalists pushing the Starmer Beergate story distracting their readers from just a few days before the local elections?

UK Politics

Boris Johnson’s bad behaviour: How declining trust in the prime minister affects trust in British democracy.

— A new survey shows a strong link between trusting the prime minister and trusting the government, Parliament and political parties.

Brexit

Mugged by reality.

— Professor Chris Grey’s Brexit analysis on Brexiters demanding concrete results while their slogans get exposed by reality. With discussion of financial services, gene editing, CE marks, alcohol duties, ‘Making Brexit Work’, and lashings of Jacob Rees-Mogg.