Historic rebel victory: Parliament moves to stop no-deal
Boris Johnson was the first prime minister to lose his very first Commons vote since 1894, after a night of high political drama.
Lies, threats and deja-vu: Johnson opts for Theresa May’s No.10 statement gambit
A long wait, fevered speculation, and then nothing changes. The prime minister keeps emulating the predecessor he did so much to undermine.
It’s time for progressive parties to start thinking about the upcoming election
Whatever happens this week, a general election is odds-on -but a discussion of a policy platform that progressive parties could agree on is curiously absent.
Week in Review: The battle against Tory Leninism
The Brexit game hasn’t really changed, not since the summer of 2016. It just keeps getting worse, as this week’s attempt by Boris Johnson to cancel parliament shows.
Fatal misjudgement: Johnson has united opponents of no-deal
Anti-no-deal Brexit politicians lacked focus, unity and coherence over the summer, but Boris Johnson’s threat to suspend parliament has changed all that.
Johnson’s alternative to the backstop would be just as ‘undemocratic’
The moral difference between Johnson’s Brexit options would only be discoverable with an electron microscope.
Week in Review: The UK goes full Basil Fawlty
Boris Johnson’s trip to Europe to discuss the backstop part of the Brexit deal somehow managed to be both obsequious and uncivil.
The great Brexit ‘up yours’: How three decades of euroscepticism made the UK go full tabloid
From “up yours Delors” to no-deal Brexit, thirty years of euroscepticism have created a post-rational world.
Boris Johnson’s cringing post-Brexit foreign policy
It’s not just Donald Trump: Johnson’s Britain will be forced to put aside any values to survive in a post-Brexit world.
Week in Review: The Remain alliance claims its first scalp
Crucial byelection win for Liberal Democrats in Brecon and Radnorshire provides proof-of-concept for a broader electoral campaign with Remain parties to stop no-deal Brexit.
