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Just as Labour’s popularity continues to rise and party leader Jeremy Corbyn tours marginal constituencies across Britain, another spoke is driven into Labour’s wheels.
In the zealously pro-EU Observer newspaper, shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer has announced that a Labour government would seek to negotiate a transitional deal that would keep Britain in the EU single market and customs union after leaving the EU.
Moreover, it would do so on the basis of full acceptance of EU treaties, rules and directives.
A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look
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
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026