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JOHN McDONNELL’S insistence that the EU referendum decision must be respected is the only stance expected from a democratic politician worthy of the name.
Yes, constitutionally, Parliament is supreme and the referendum was described as advisory only, but for MPs to ride roughshod over this clear decision by the electorate would be disastrous.
MPs’ public standing has rarely been lower in the wake of expenses scandals, unpopular overseas wars and front-bench collusion on making the working class pay for the misdeeds of the private banking sector — at least until Jeremy Corbyn’s election.
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
Our two-tear Chancellor’s woes at PMQs caused a multimillion-pound sinking feeling on the bond market, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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
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