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KNIVES are out in the Tory Party. David Cameron is now being publicly attacked on central issues of policy and his credibility as Prime Minister challenged.
For a Conservative government, this is highly unusual. The nearest equivalent would be the Tory revolt against Neville Chamberlain. Then the issues were relatively honourable — to oust a prime minister who had been the architect of appeasement with fascism.
Now the issues seem to be a mix of personal ambition and a populist grab for the anti-immigration vote.
MARTIN HALL welcomes a study of Britain’s relationship with the EU that sheds light on the way euroscepticism moved from the margins to the centre
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
For the first time in years, the dominant voice within Chile’s official left comes not from neoliberal centrists but from the world of labour, writes LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI
There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT