Matt Singh

The Labor Party’s Long Road Back

Two months after suffering its worst general election result for 84 years, Britain’s Labor Party continues to pick up the pieces. While Boris Johnson’s Conservatives govern with an 80-seat majority in the House of Commons, Labor is simultaneously reflecting on its thrashing and electing a successor…

Boris Johnson Is Hoping Voters Have a One-Track Mind

The Dec. 12 UK election will be hugely consequential. An outright victory for Boris Johnson’s Conservatives would all but guarantee the ratification of the Brexit deal. Any other result would likely force the Tories from office, even if they were the largest party, due to the lack of potential…

What Parliament’s Breakaway Group Means for Brexit Britain

This week, British politics saw its first split in the center since the early 1980s, as 11 rebel pro-EU lawmakers to quit the two major parties to form The Independent Group. (A nine Labour MP quit on Friday, though disagrees with the group on Brexit so has not joined them.) Although the breakaway…

No, the UK Isn't Going to Rejoin Europe

Outside of Britain it’s commonly assumed that the country regrets its decision to leave Europe. Indeed European Parliament Brexit Representative Guy Verhofstadt suggested recently that one day the UK might rejoin the EU. It’s also a view some inside Britain cling to as well; and yet there’s very…