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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Poor Expectations: why the Liberal Democrats are doomed
Vince Cable claims resisting Brexit could create a ‘Lib Dem moment.’ But in this Stats For Lefties column ELL SMITH assesses the possibility of a Lib Dem comeback — and the numbers are not kind
Liberal Democrats leader Sir Vince Cable arrives to deliver his keynote speech at the Liberal Democrats Autumn Conference in 2018
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
HOW times change. When Stephen Lloyd MP, who quit the Liberal Democrats last month in order to vote for May’s Brexit deal, first stood for Parliament in 2005, his party had 62 MPs.
Following his departure, they now have 11. After Lloyd was elected as an MP in 2010, his party took part in a British government for the first time since 1931, and within the previous decade had also governed as part of coalitions in Scotland and Wales. They were, in a very real sense, a major political force. Now they are struggling to have more seats than the DUP.
The party’s position on the fringes of politics is a consequence of the 2015 election result. In one devastating night, the Liberal Democrats’ participation in the coalition undid over 45 years of electoral progress.
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