Ian Dunt

Ian Dunt served as the editor-at-large of Politics.co.uk until 2021. He is a regular host on the Oh God What Now podcast, a columnist for the New European and the i newspaper, and the author of two books: Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now and How To Be A Liberal.

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May during her statement to the Commons this afternoon

May’s nonsense on Brexit conceals a cynical strategy

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"We are all in a puddle of indecision"

Week in Review: End of May reopens Tory Brexit wounds

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Liam Fox is slowly chipping away at the position Theresa May outlined in Florence.

May’s Brexit reboot is starting to fall apart

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"Corbyn was the butt of a thousand jokes in Westminster drinking dens. Now he is soaring above those who once made fun of him"

Week in Review: May is Corbyn’s most important recruiting sergeant

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Davis and Barnier emerge for a press conference. This appearance was far less frosty than the last.

Can the Brexiters wean themselves off nationalism in time to save their project?

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Delegates hold up their fists as they sing the Red Flag after Corbyn's speech

Corbyn speech: Idolised leader enthralls those who have seen the light

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" The manner both parties are talking about Brexit - using euphemisms and open-ended statements - serves to take a highly emotional political issue and make it comprehensible only to a small group of geeks"

Decoding Labour’s Brexit position part 12,675

Starmer’s speech contained a lot of waffle but there were some crucial points

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"It was always going to be this way. It just took May this long to realise it. "

Florence speech: May kicks the Brexit can two years down the road

The Brexit battle has been prolonged

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"Just one day in the life of Brexit Britain. Speaking to an empty hall at the UN. Belittled for its desperation by the press of countries it seeks trade deals with."

May humiliated on world stage as Brexit bites

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Sir Vince Cable arrives on stage to deliver his keynote speech at the Liberal Democrat annual conference at the Bournemouth International Centre this afternoon

Vince Cable speech: A tired contribution which misunderstands this moment in history

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Boris Johnson enters the Foreign Office following a meeting in Downing Street over the summer

Boris’ attack on young people is part of Brexit’s ‘traitor’ narrative

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"The government might stumble on, like some executive zombie, but it will do permanent damage to the careers of those associated with it."

Week in Review: A zombie government with no ideas and no principles

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"All of this would require a political culture in which compromise was prized above ideological purity and careful preparation above nationalist histrionics"

The EEA option: Saving Britain from hard Brexit (Part3)

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"The EEA is often spoken of as an 'off-the-shelf' model"

The EEA option: Saving Britain from hard Brexit (Part 2)

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"Even though soft Brexit is probably the most viable course available to Britain at this juncture, it is also full of pitfalls, uncertainties and dangers"

The EEA option: Saving Britain from hard Brexit

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"We are seeing a Brexit assault on democracy"

This is the just the start of the Brexit attack on democracy

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"There were many disturbing elements to yesterday's debate"

Nationalism is turning Britain into a basket case

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"Their press conference yesterday was tetchy in the extreme"

Week in Review: A shambles to which the Brexiters have no answer

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"Theresa May arrived in the country yesterday, trying to put a brave face on it."

May’s post-Brexit trade policy unravels in Japan

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