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Johnson Quits!

July 7, 2022Claire Laker-Mansfield

Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Tory infighting rages: Drive them all from power! After two days of humiliation, 59 resignations and one sacking, Johnson has finally succumbed to overwhelming pressure and resigned as Tory leader. Yet far from drawing a line under this crisis, it fires the starting […]

Labour’s New Blairism – Electoral Catastrophe

May 7, 2021Claire Laker-Mansfield

Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The votes cast on May’s super-Thursday elections are still being counted. But already the picture painted is one of an utter disaster for Starmer’s Labour. Labour heading to lose over 200 council seats and further losses in the Scottish parliament. Since the 2019 […]

Understanding Britain’s Brexit crisis

October 15, 2019Claire Laker-Mansfield

Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Britain’s ongoing Brexit crisis has entered a new and spectacularly explosive phase. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is in a state of chaos. His attempts to regain control, including via the dissolution of parliament, have so-far failed. Johnson’s first week in parliament as […]