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How a Labour victory in 2015 makes the UK leaving the EU more likely

Two separate conversations in Brussels this week, both with Brits, but with people of very different political persuasions, led me to the odd conclusion summed up by the title of…

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Another Labour MP has a go at the EU, and once more it’s disappointing

I suppose if you run Liberal Conspiracy you’re grateful for pieces from MPs and have to accept them. Today – via this tweet from Sunny Hundal – I read “We…

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“The national interest” – the next term to reject in the EU framing fight

“It’s in Britain’s national interest to be in the EU” – it pains me how often we hear that phrase (or words that that effect) in speeches made by UK…

Better selection and election systems would give us better MEPs | LabourList.org

Better selection and election systems would give us better MEPs | LabourList.org 2.0.2 | LabourList.org. Better selection and election systems would give us better MEPs | LabourList.org 2.0.2 | LabourList.org.

Some reflections on coalition building (in light of UK and Finnish experience)

Something has been nagging at me since the True Finns’ election success on Sunday. I think it’s because I am struggling to answer this question: why must True Finns be…

How elected representatives could use the web to add context (an example for Claude Moraes MEP)

I saw this tweet earlier from Brian Duggan who works for EPLP in their London office: [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/TheBrianDuggan/status/55944123059941376"] I followed the link to the letters page of The Guardian, and…

Miliband explains all the problems of the European left – now time for solutions

David Miliband set out his concerns about the predicament of the European left in a speech at LSE this evening. The full text of his speech is available at Labourlist…

An in-or-out EU referendum isn’t the solution some in Labour think it is | LabourList.org

An in-or-out EU referendum isn’t the solution some in Labour think it is | LabourList.org 2.0.2 | LabourList.org. An in-or-out EU referendum isn’t the solution some in Labour think it…