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DAVID CAMERON’S letter to European Council president Donald Tusk, supposedly setting out four “challenging” demands to adjust Britain’s relationship with the European Union, smacks of amateur dramatics.
His performance is calculated to distract his back-bench eurosceptic colleagues from pushing for Britain’s immediate exit from the EU by persuading them that the bloc can be reformed.
Or, failing that, to ensure that they remain calm for a short period rather than knifing him in the back.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
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
It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR