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LABOUR can congratulate itself for inflicting a “humiliating loss of authority” on Theresa May in Wednesday night’s Brexit vote, but the party needs to better promote its own vision for our future outside the EU.
Parliament’s palpable lack of faith in the Prime Minister as our negotiator-in-chief is shared beyond Westminster. Since the Conservatives’ disastrous election result in June, the government has had no mandate for its approach to Brexit or anything else.
This is not simply a matter of incompetence.
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
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
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
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