With eight days to go until polling day, the referendum debate has become increasingly dominated by immigration. Many in the Remain camp, particularly on the Labour side, are (rightly) worried that anxiety about immigration is driving Labour voters toward Brexit.
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It’s easy to forget or ignore the fact that Labour wasn’t always pro-EU. From Gaitskell’s 1000 years of history and Benn’s five questions of democracy to Castle’s Oxford Union speech: left and right have had their sceptics. Had Benn lived...
However the vote turns out, the referendum on Britain's EU membership on 23 June represents a triumph for Ukip. The issue the party was founded to address - Britain's membership of the EU - is being put before the whole...
Labour supporters of English devolution currently face a dilemma which can only be resolved by a nationwide citizens' convention. Do they embrace the offer from the Conservative government for devolution to individual and combined local authorities, while recognising all its...
From backbenches to Brussels and back again
When the Commons Environmental Audit Committee rightly concluded that “the UK’s membership of the EU has been a crucial factor in the shaping of its environmental policy”, there was something of a backlash.
How can...
A notable feature of the 2015 general election campaign was the degree of apparent unanimity across all parties that Britain has an overcentralized governmental structure, which is ripe for devolution. In the wake of the Scottish independence referendum, and the...
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