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Theresa May speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons
THE jeering, heckling and juvenile gestures that accompany Westminster debates have often been compared to pantomime. But Theresa May’s government has surpassed its predecessors in reducing the “mother of Parliaments” to a discreditable farce.
Catastrophic government defeats seemingly have no consequences. Theresa May can present her deal to Parliament and lose by over 200 votes. She can then come back with the same deal and lose on it again. As of today, May was threatening to bring her wretched deal back for a third bruising.
All semblance of government or party discipline has broken down. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s press and events manager David Prescott commented on the “bizarre” behaviour of May’s government the last time she had her deal defeated: “The government puts forward a motion to take no deal off the table on March 29 but not forever.
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT