Latest editorial
Portugal’s ruling Socialist Party gained ground in this week’s local elections at the expense of the communist-led alliance.
Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s Socialists came top in 158 of the country’s 308 biggest municipalities, holding the capital Lisbon but failing to take Porto from an independent.
The Socialist Party vote exceeded 38 per cent, up from its 2015 general election share of 32 per cent.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
