MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Weekly survey: Brexit consultation, backstop, Cooper rebels
Source: Labour List UK Welcome to our latest LabourList survey. Tell us what you think about consulting Labour members on Brexit, the ‘backstop’, this week’s anti-Cooper rebels and your top three Labour MPs. Answer the four questions below or click here to open the survey in a new window. This survey will close at 8pm on Sunday 3rd […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: What we learnt from the Corbyn-May Brexit meeting
Source: Labour List UK Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Nothing much appeared to come out of Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit chat with the Prime Minister yesterday. This is not surprising: she has just promised something undeliverable to get her right-wing flank and DUP on board, temporarily, while the Labour […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: PMQs: “Well, none of that was clear to me” – Corbyn sums it up
Source: Labour List UK Following last night’s sort-of-mixed bag of key Brexit votes, we were offered a punchy PMQs today. But as usual, Jeremy Corbyn’s questions went largely unanswered by the Prime Minister. One of his exasperated responses – “Well, none of that was clear to me, I don’t know about anybody else…” – just about […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Another so-called crunch moment for Brexit, but nothing has changed
Source: Labour List UK Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Another so-called crunch moment for Brexit turned out to be more of the same: nothing has changed. The Commons voted on a series of amendments last night that could have led to Labour’s Brexit plan, Article 50 extension or ‘indicative votes’, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: MPs vote on Brexit amendments – liveblog
Source: Labour List UK Tonight, from 7pm, the House of Commons will debate and vote the government’s Brexit motion – and, more crucially, on seven amendments. These amendments, selected earlier today by Speaker Bercow, will each be either dismissed or approved by MPs (unless withdrawn) before the main motion is considered. The backbench proposals represent a wide […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Battle of the Brexit amendments and our surprising survey results
Source: Labour List UK Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. It’s Brexit crunch time… again. The Commons vote tomorrow will test to what extent MPs have shifted towards supporting Theresa May’s Brexit deal, which is notionally ‘Plan B’ but still actually ‘Plan A’ for now, and what changes would […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: LabourList readers split close to 50/50 on fresh EU referendum calls
Source: Labour List UK Our readers are split almost equally over whether Jeremy Corbyn should back another EU referendum, the latest LabourList survey has found. The Labour leader has come under significant pressure to support a fresh public vote over the last few months, with polls by YouGov in September and by an academic study earlier this month […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Weekly survey: Another referendum, no deal, shadow cabinet
Source: Labour List UK Welcome to our latest LabourList survey. Tell us what you think about a fresh EU referendum, the best Brexit outcome, Theresa May’s ‘no deal’ threat and the shadow cabinet. Answer the four questions below or click here to open the survey in a new window. This survey will close at 8pm on […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: PMQs: May refuses to rule out Brexit delay or customs union
Source: Labour List UK If you’re a fan of the film Groundhog Day, you’ll love PMQs. A cynical party leader finds himself reliving the same day over and over again when he visits the despatch box in the small town of Westminster to film a report about the Brexit process. Yes, as ever, Theresa May […]
Read More →MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Tory election panic. Is it justified?
Source: Labour List UK Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. “Are Labour trying to block Brexit?” That was the subject line of an email from Brandon Lewis to Tory supporters last night. The party chair pointed to Labour’s new amendment as proof that the opposition is moving towards another […]
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