Brexit 5: TIG for Tat

by | 22 Feb 2019 | Brexit

TIG for tat After much hearsay and speculation, the Westminster equivalent of a boyband break-up came into fruition as the ‘Centrist Seven’ finally took to the stage to announce their split from Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. While the seven MPs have been vocal critics...

Are Labour leavers heroes or charlatans?

by | 19 Feb 2019 | Politics

The seven former Labour MPs who have left the Party to establish The Independent Group are being widely lionised for their political courage and their integrity, but does that claim to the moral high ground really stand scrutiny? For over two years they have supported...

Brexit 5: Roses Are Red

by | 15 Feb 2019 | Uncategorized

May defeated on Brexit Plan B The government suffered another Commons defeat this week after MPs voted by 303 votes to 258 against a motion endorsing the government’s negotiating strategy on Brexit. Following the vote Jeremy Corbyn urged the Prime Minister to “admit...

Brexit 5: Hell or High Water

by | 8 Feb 2019 | Brexit

Backstop’s back, alright. For some of the more hardline Brexit supporters in Theresa May’s party the message is simple… the backstop must go. However, when making her Belfast speech on Tuesday, the Prime Minister doubled-down on her commitment to avoid a hard border...