Jon Danzig
To win power, and to stay in power for more than one term, Labour needs to do something special.It’s a sobering thought that although there have been six Labour Prime Ministers since the party was formed in 1900, only three of them won general elections: Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, and Tony...
Jon Danzig
The Guardian has reported that Labour is planning to ditch radical reforms and only offer ‘safe policies’ in a stripped-down, cautious manifesto that is “bombproof” to Tory attacks.Keir Starmer has now rowed back on numerous big policies, such as its £28bn a year commitment on green investment,...
Jon Danzig
So, Rishi Sunak has been crowned the second ‘unelected’ Tory Prime Minister in as many months. Is the country ‘Ready for Rishi’? Well, the country has no choice. The new Prime Minister has been anointed by just 194 Conservative MPs. We don’t get a say.Although in the UK we don’t directly elect a...
Jon Danzig
For most of the UK’s five decades as a member of the European Union, Britain didn’t want to leave. On the contrary, most Brits wanted us to stay.What’s the proof of that? Well, apart from polling over the years, look at governments and general elections.From 1959 to 2016, every UK government and...