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Brexit

What Brexiteers told me behind May’s back was worrying

One of them recently told me that, for all their threats to remove her, “we’ll keep her in place for now” because “she’s our puppet, we’re pulling the strings”.

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  • 5th November 2018

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A People’s Vote will be impossible without cross-party consensus

Unless the Labour leadership unequivocally backs any cross-party backbench initiative for a People’s Vote, we won’t win the vote when it comes.

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  • 22nd October 2018

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A People’s Vote is our final chance to get it right for generations to come

Over 2 million young people have not had a chance to vote on Brexit yet – that’s why they will be at the front of the march, leading the charge

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  • 20th October 2018

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Why a Canada-style Brexit deal would be a disaster for Britain

The bottom line is this: whatever agreement is reached, the government’s own analysis states that the UK will be worse off in every other scenario outside of the EU

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  • 8th October 2018

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A final Brexit vote without Remain on the ballot would be nonsensical

Trying to sell a final vote without a Remain option would be like selling a car without a reverse gear.

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  • 24th September 2018

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What EU diplomats told me about Brexit was painful to hear

One diplomat of a medium-sized country said to me that a country 'we used to regard as strong and stable' now has a politics that 'is in chaos'

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  • 17th September 2018

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Brexit is a project by the elites, for the elites

Of the many Brexit cons, few are greater than the idea that this is a fight for the people

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  • 10th September 2018

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We need a society which recognises our mutual obligations, and our need to belong. We share in the good times and we support one another in the bad.

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  • Defending the centre-left tradition in the Labour Party

    BAME voices for Progress
    Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London
    8th September 2018
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These are the everyday issues being ignored as MPs fight over Brexit

Leaving the EU certainly provides no solutions and will actually make all other problems harder to tackle

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  • 3rd September 2018

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This isn’t Project Fear – this is Project Reality

I spoke to UK businesspeople over the weekend about what they’d really do in a no-deal Brexit. Everyone needs to hear what they said.

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  • 20th August 2018

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We deserve more than what we’re getting from Corbyn and May

Boris Johnson has repeatedly said public, prejudicial things and his party has repeatedly ignored it. Meanwhile, many of my Labour colleagues are at breaking point after the leader's refusal to tackle the antisemitism issue head on

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  • 13th August 2018

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Our future with Europe should not be left to 650 politicians in London

The prime minister has proposed a half-in, half-out plan for a hard Brexit that has pleased no one, least of all the electorate

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  • 24th July 2018

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