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Exit from the EU

What is happening to the UK post-referendum and how should Labour respond?

The decision to leave the European Union was, amongst other things, a shock to the economy. However, the economic and financial reaction so far has been mixed and has...

Open space

As British politics tries to divine the true meaning of Brexit, there is a political opportunity for a party to be pro-openness but also pro-redistribution, argues Duncan Weldon

In 2014, Labour was on the winning side of the referendum on Scottish...

Labour's existential crisis

Post-referendum, Labour faces an existential crisis – over leadership, policy and its whole purpose and very existence. At the same time there could be an early general election, within the next 10 months. The leadership crisis needs sorting out first...

A heart for Europe after Brexit

From across the English Channel (soon to become a new European frontier) it was perhaps easier to see that something big was missing from the Brexit debate: a positive idea about European civilization, and of Britain’s part in it. The...

Hearts and minds

As we all reel from the result of the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, now may be the time for some initial reflections on the result, how it happened and where we may go from here.
Firstly, although...

A new policy agenda

There is little doubt that Fabian Society members voted overwhelmingly for Remain rather than Leave in the recent EU referendum. Leave won, however, because of huge discontent among Labour voters who were not convinced that the EU was good for...

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