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Prime Minister Theresa May waves during a press conference at 10 Downing Street, London, to discuss her Brexit plans
FOR Theresa May to lose one Brexit secretary may be, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, “regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.”
Some commentators ridicule Dominic Raab’s departure in the footsteps of David Davis, suggesting he has responsibility for having negotiated the Tory government’s friendless deal only to abandon it at the last minute.
In reality, as the Prime Minister made clear after Davis walked out, she is Britain’s chief negotiator and, in her absence, her Europe adviser Oliver Robbins holds sway.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
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
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare