The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
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Lib Dems: building themselves up for another fall?
The original centrist party's rampant opportunism has seen it swell its parliamentary ranks - but letting ex-Tories in might be as bad for its health as the ill-judged Con-Dem alliance of 2010, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Liberal Democrat MPs (left to right) Sir Ed Davey, Jane Dodds, Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Sam Gyimah, Angela Smith, Sarah Wollaston and Phillip Lee
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
WHILE Change UK crash and burn, the other centrist party, the Lib Dems, are making a recovery. But there are tensions and contradictions.
The coalition with the Conservatives gave some Lib Dems the ministerial posts they craved, but voters hated it — so the Lib Dems crashed from 57 to eight MPs. They were close to destruction as a party.
However, the Lib Dems have managed to recover a bit, largely by distancing themselves from the Tories, and using their opposition to Brexit to look like a principled, anti-Tory party. They have also grown in Parliament by recruiting ex-Tory MPs on the run from Boris Johnson’s no-deal Brexit and ex-Labour MPs fleeing Corbynism.
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