News & Insight

30 June 2016

Long before the referendum it has been clear that immigration is Labour’s achilles heel in the Brexit debate, and the strategy of avoiding the issue merely inflamed feelings. The Conservative claims that immigration could or should be reduced dramatically fed...

29 June 2016

So why exactly did 51.9 per cent of Britain's voting population choose to ignore world leaders, 90 per cent of economists, the UK's top business leaders and independent EU law experts last Thursday? The easiest answer is that they were misled: the blatant lie that the UK...

29 June 2016

It is tempting, as the Fabian Society general secretary has suggested, to hide beneath the duvet for hours, perhaps days, maybe weeks, as a pillar of Labour’s internationalist identity is smashed apart. From a political and Westminster perspective it is also...

28 June 2016

On 23 June 2016 the British people voted by 52 per cent to 48 per cent to withdraw from the European Union, of which we had been a member since 1973. They did so against the warnings and scare tactics...

28 June 2016

I know that many of you will have been suffering what feels like a physical blow from the results and fall out of the referendum. Whatever the wider politics of the debate, you have been working for years to protect our...

28 June 2016

When a young friend who has fought the good fight with you, rings you up in tears it’s hard to find words of comfort. The referendum was always a dangerous and unnecessary gamble so I was prepared for the wrong...