Jeremy Corbyn chairs a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet (a meme that did the rounds yesterday) Seeing as how it's Labour, the obvious choice is to hit the self-destruct button. A vote of no-confidence in the Corbyn leadership will be held today,...
UK politics
A recent poll (10 June) estimated that 44% of those who voted Labour in the 2015 General Election will support Brexit. This was perhaps the poll that began the general.
On Friday afternoon, I was interviewed by BBC Radio Devon about calls for increased security for MPs in the wake of the Jo Cox murder. It can be found here.
The numbers don't look terribly promising for the remain camp. There has been a significant shift in the polling data to leave across every polling house in the past two to three weeks. Clearly, leave are winning the argument. How the trio of clowns leading...
The United Kingdom votes in the European Union referendum in 13 days. The deadline for voters not on the electoral roll at their current address to register was Tuesday. Only, in.
Donald Trump, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the newly elected Mayor of London have gotten themselves into a spot of bother. In an interview with Piers Morgan,.
First, a disclaimer. There isn't much of an argument in this post. There isn't even much of a narrative arc. What I do promise are some words strung together somewhat coherently to form paragraphs. Individual paragraphs might be a satisfying à la carte experience, but the...
We at LGM have a long, glorious tradition of boldly making predictions that inevitably don't pan out. I've always tried to avoid this particular game, given the risks are high.
Don't piss me off. As LGM's Senior British Correspondent, I discuss how the opposition Labour Party has just completed a reshuffle of its front bench team. Because nothing screams "clickbait!" like.
So, I do a lot of media. The guy taking over the politics desk at the local rag has interviewed me a couple of times, and this is his latest offering. To Sam's credit, he got all the quotes correct.
Executive summary: not due to any sense of ideological purity, but because I think he has the best chance to lead Labour to victory in 2020. In 2009, I published.
The current leadership contest for the Labour Party is demonstrating two of its purported weaknesses: narcissism and disorganisation. A lot of this was unavoidable. The bulk of the current party as is came of political.