Not necessarily, a Labour government with a manifesto commitment to rejoin the EU which had won a general election with a majority or with enough seats with LD and Green support could rejoin the EU w… (View Post)

Constitutionally though that Parliament was right, in the UK Crown in Parliament is sovereign, referendums are nothing more than glorified mass opinion polls. MPs and peers can choose to implement th… (View Post)

More like 2/3 of current Tory voters would go Reform, about 1/3 LD, near 0 Labour or Green. They do need to win more centre ground swing voters though to beat Reform as you say, whichever of Reform o… (View Post)

Swinney can say what he wants, Starmer has made clear he will refuse to allow indyref2 regardless https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq69q36gpg8o (View Post)

Free trade is liberal but not especially rightwing, plenty of rightwingers from Derby and Disraeli and Joseph Chamberlain, to Baldwin, Enoch Powell and Warren G Harding and now Trump have been protec… (View Post)