Jeremy Corbyn

17.07.2019 Brexit

The speech Jeremy Corbyn should give on 22 July about Johnson and Brexit

Fictitious scenario. The date is Monday 22 July, the day before Boris Johnson is expected to be approved leader of the Conservative Party, and two days before he is expected to go to the Palace to see the Queen. Jeremy

20.01.2019 Brexit

Labour should back a People’s Vote, but need not explicitly back Remain

Back in December I wrote that trying to break UK party politics was not the way out of Britain’s Brexit conundrum. The events of this past 7 days underline this even more. Back in December, 117 Tory MPs voted to

22.12.2018 Brexit

Breaking Britain’s party structure is – for now anyway – not the way out of the short term Brexit impasse

Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn might be atypical leaders of their respective parties, but in one way they are as traditional as they come: the extent to which they are partisan. Tribal. Defenders of their own parties above pretty much

22.08.2018 Brexit

Stop your eye rolling over there. This Jeremy Corbyn Brexit interview is important.

Channel 4 interviewed Jeremy Corbyn about Brexit. Apparently they were only allowed to ask him one question, so they asked the same question six times. “Do you honestly believe that Britain is better off outside of the EU?” He cannot

30.06.2017 Brexit

Labour tying itself in a terrible knot on Brexit and the Single Market

“Corbyn sacks three frontbenchers after Single Market vote” was the top story on The Guardian’s website early this morning. The three in question – Slaughter, West and Cadbury – were sacked, while a fourth, Daniel Zeichner, resigned. Like anything to

03.06.2017 Brexit

Britain’s Brexit election that cannot really be about Brexit

When Theresa May called the UK General Election on 18th April, her speech was all about Brexit and how the election was necessary in light of that. You can read the whole thing here, but a few quotes give the

01.06.2017 Brexit

General Election outcomes – short term impact on Brexit

Note the date of this piece: 1st June 2017. One week prior to the UK’s General Election. This is written in response to the current state of the election debate and opinion polls. I cannot judge which of these outcomes will

29.05.2017 Brexit

EU: prepare for greater political instability in the UK (and that will impact Brexit)

A few short weeks ago when Theresa May called a General Election there was only one question on people’s minds: how big will her victory be? Faced with a Labour Party trailing in the polls, assumed to be demoralised thanks

08.10.2016 Brexit

Keir Starmer – the best person Labour has for Shadow Brexit Minister (for now)

Jeremy Corbyn’s latest Labour reshuffle has – rather predictably – prompted a storm of critique about the people the leader appointed, and the means he chose to appoint them. Yet this particular cloud has a potential silver lining: the choice