Peter Hain Articles

The Labour party must be in the vanguard of the struggle to keep the United Kingdom in the single market, argues former cabinet minister Peter Hain As Jeremy Corbyn has argued, Labour must prioritise jobs and the economy over Brexit – which, for those Labour...

Next year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, which had a profound impact upon the history of the modern world, inspiring great revolutions against feudal or colonial dictatorships in Russia, China and Latin America, and...

While Brexiteers bury their heads in the sand over the consequences of leaving for the island of Ireland, important voices insist these could be very serious. The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is visiting Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow at the end of this week to urge both...

Kitty Ussher has been looking at the UK economy through rose-tinted spectacles in her surprisingly over-optimistic assessment of Britain’s growth prospects under George Osborne. Ussher says that ‘the economy is in good shape’ and that the Office for Budget...