Opinion

It’s been a difficult few weeks for the Brexit adventure. The meaningful vote has turned into a merry-go-round of re-runs which leaves us wondering exactly which definition of meaningful is being applied. Amidst cries from the ERG that the People’s Vote lobby simply wants to have vote after vote until they get the decision they want, Theresa May wilfully misinterprets the word ‘No’ in favour of doing exactly the same thing. In spite of denials about running down the Brexit...

“sometimes accusations of racism are used by people against people they don’t like and that weakens the fight against genuine racism”

Home Office neglect and incompetence has now resulted in the head of MI6, Alex Younger, warning that returning jihadis present a real threat to national security.

Nigel Farage used his LBC slot to berate Jeremy Corbyn last night after the Labour leader announced a framework for backing a second referendum. A furious caller told the former UKIP leader that Corbyn had "betrayed" the north and that the Labour party had “no chance” in gaining seats in its traditional heartlands now the party had, in essence, simply delivered on proposals agreed in the last Labour Party conference. Farage responded saying "if people give up totally on the...

This week's announcement that nine Labour MPs have quit the party to join forces with centrist Conservatives as the Independent Group sounds like a little bit of history repeating for those old enough to remember the formation of the Social Democratic Party. In January 1981, four cabinet ministers announced their intention to move away from the Labour Party, citing concerns over the direction - namely, to the left - that the party was heading in. They claimed "a handful of trade union...

A cross party coalition between the Liberal Democrats, SNP and newly-formed Independent Group could stand a chance of ousting the big two for the first time in modern British political history at the next General Election if they campaign on a Remain ticket.  Early indications suggest the Independent Group and Liberal Democrats would account for more than 20 per cent of the vote if an election was held tomorrow. Added to the 35 SNP MPs currently sitting in parliament it...

Honda's decision to shut its factory in Swindon with the loss of 3,500 jobs is nothing to do with Brexit. The move, which comes on the back of a number of crushing manufacturing blows, was confirmed as a non-Brexit-related issue by the firm's most senior executive in Europe on the Today Programme. Like Sony, Dyson, Jaguar Land Rover, Panasonic, Lloyds, Unilever, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Airbus, Flybmi, P&O, HSBC, JP Morgan, UBS, Ford, Hitachi, Toshiba, AXA, Moneygram, Philips and the Bank of America, it's...

So, MPs have left the Labour Party to form an Independent Group. Is this the beginning of the end? Can Labour escape from this and its Brexit dilemmas, or is there no way out? 63% of Labour’s vote in 2017 came from remain supporters, and 37% from leave supporters, and if it is to win the next election, Labour has to keep these voters and attract others from both camps. The polls – and the MPs who have just walked...

There is a British baby in Syria. His name is Jarah. He’s only a few days old. His two older siblings are dead. He might never see his father. And his mother? She’s an object of hate. Plastered across British newspapers, Shamima Begum is the ‘Jihadi bride’ who’s been told in no uncertain terms that the UK is not her home any more. Maybe you can’t blame people for feeling no sympathy for a woman who left home to join...