Isn’t it more fundamentally about that old phrase about being a moral crusade, and therefore compromising itself on questions of international injustice - which is how many see it - hits at the core … (View Post)

Also, having tried to stem the loss of votes to Reform with right-leaning stances on immigration and various cultural issues, the greater threat now to Labour is from the left and the Greens in parti… (View Post)

Which has hit the Tories in local government, in particular, since having lower tax increases was always part of their core offering. Nowadays, almost every council’s tax will go up every year by the… (View Post)

As I keep saying, he'll win next time comfortably, anyway (View Post)

The main reason is that while Streeting will alienate the left and Rayner will alienate the right, Burnham offers the chance of being a unity candidate, and the wiser Labour MPs, having lived through… (View Post)