Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Europe – where now after Brexit?
Communist Party general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS asks what are the outstanding questions three years on from Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union
THE REMAIN ELITE: Then chancellor George Osborne (third left) campaigns for Remain in Belfast, June 2016
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
RENEGOTIATION of the Northern Ireland Protocol signalled the desire of the British ruling class for rapprochement with the EU.
Most of big business and its Tory government never wanted Brexit. The CBI, the Institute of Directors, the City banks and all the major employers’ federations urged the electorate to stay in the EU and its single market.
They put their money where their mouths were, helping the Remain campaign outspend Leave by £19 million to £13m, while the Cameron-Osborne government spent £9m sending a pro-EU brochure to every household in Britain.
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