The British left should lead in resisting Brexit
Labour List have published my article on why the left should be resisting Brexit.
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Labour must distance itself from the Tories’ Brexit disaster
My lastest article for Labour List argues that Labour can ill afford to be on the wrong side of the Brexit debate.
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Spring 2017 Report
June 2017 Quarterly Report online – Final
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As Labour politicians, we reject a hard-right Brexit, and defend the single market
I am one of the fifty signatories of a statement from Labour MPs, MEPs and Lords calling for our party to campaign to at the very least remain in the single market as part of the Brexit negotiations, because of the enormous damage leaving it would do to our economy.
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The ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ fallacy
My article pointing out the ‘Fox paradox’ has been published in Parliament Magazine.
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What red lines should Labour lay down for the Brexit negotiations?
Writing for Labour List on the eve of the triggering of article 50, I argue for the red lines that Labour should insist on.
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Now the Brexit bill has passed, what red lines for Labour?
Labour List published my response to the passing of the unamended Brexit bill through parliament on Monday evening. What should Labour do now?
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Labour must not be complicit in this hard Brexit disaster
Writing for Left Foot Forward, I argue for Labour must continue to fight the Tory’s hard Brexit over the coming weeks and months.
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Fabian Review | The Next Steps
Fabian Review has launched a regular series of pieces looking at the view from Brussels on Brexit from the UK and EU politicians playing key roles in the negotiations, to which I will be regularly contributing.
To start the series, I explain what the EU is planning while it waits for Britain to fire the Brexit starting pistol.
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Autumn 2016 Report
My autumn 2016 quarterly report.
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State aid within the EU
Writing for Verdict, a new geopolitical, finance and economics platform, I expose some of the myths about how state aid for industry works within the EU.
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Brexit and the CFP – There’s always a catch!
The difficulties that face the fisheries and related industries and communities in the upcoming Brexit negotiations have been at best underestimated, and at worst deliberately misrepresented by those insisting it is simply a matter of ‘taking back our waters’.
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Interview on Sunday Politics
Interviewed by Andrew Neil on The Sunday Politics, December 2016
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Tusk calls out Tory hypocrisy
In the New Statesman’s rolling blog I point out how the Tory hypocrisy and inconsistency is already damaging our chance of negotiating anything like a good Brexit deal for the UK.
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Brexit at any cost?
In Labour List, I argue that it may well be in the national interest, and Labour’s electoral interest, not to consider Brexit a done deal without a chance to reconsider when we eventually see what it actually entails.
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The Brexit nightmare we will soon be unable to ignore
In The Staggers rolling blog in The New Statesman, I point out that extracting ourselves from the shared laws and many useful agencies which operate across the EU will be costly, complex and extremely inefficient.
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Why the EU is an exemplar of democracy, not anti-democratic
As part of their ‘Brexit Debates’ I have written for Unlock Democracy about why the EU is the most democratic of all the international structures to which the UK belongs and that UK sovereignty is not undermined by our membership, but enhanced by it.
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Brexit and Trade – Another ticking timebomb
I’ve published a very detailed analysis on the post-Brexit challenges facing Britain when it comes to world trade — an area of difficulty which nearly every commentator seems to underestimate.
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Red lines
In an analysis for the Fabian Society, I suggest a range of possible ways to square the circle between voters’ genuine concerns about migration and the urgent need to keep our economy afloat.
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We still don’t know what Brexit policy is
I wrote an editorial for Left Foot Forward on the government’s mixed-up policy on Brexit.
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We shouldn’t fall into the right’s trap on migration
Left Foot Forward has just published an article of mine on why Labour should be careful not to fall into the right’s trap on immigration.
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Press coverage of EU referendum
I was a panellist at an event reviewing the way the printed media reported on the EU referendum campaign.
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Conservative MPs accused of being a bunch of wimps
Parliament Magazine has quoted extensively from my blog on the role of pro-EU Conservative MPs in the debate over Brexit
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Summer 2016 report
My summer 2016 quarterly report.
