Posts tagged: ge2017

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  A Permanent Election

  What would a left government in the UK would look like? James Butler examines the left's challenges in building the Corbyn surge into a wholesale political transformation.

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  Stable Door

  Theresa May after the election, by Kate Evans.

  

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  Human Rights after the Election: Theresa May, the DUP, and the Good Friday Agreement

  "We must look at the potential implications for human rights if the Good Friday Agreement were to break down, with a loss of neutrality in Westminster leading to a resurgence in the kind of violence that was stymied by the conclusion of the peace process."

  Gracie Mae Bradley examines Theresa May's threats to remove human rights laws in light of a DUP alliance.

  

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  Richard Seymour: Where Next for Corbyn and Labour?

  

  Without winning the vote, Jeremy Corbyn won the election. Raising Labour’s vote by the biggest margin since 1945, to 40 per cent, he added thirty-three seats to Labour’s total, when almost all pundits expected a Tory landslide.

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  My Bonnets and Me: What's next for Scotland?

  Scotland looks very different after the general election, with the strongest performance for Scottish Conservatives since 1983. Niki Seth-Smith looks at what lies ahead for Scottish politics.

  

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  Reality is Running

  Corbyn’s accession to the leadership of the Labour Party, and the campaign conducted over the past six weeks, has shifted the space of the politically acceptable: talk of public ownership and common good, once deemed electoral poison, are back on the agenda.