To split or not to split? Moderates in the Labour party have long agonised over the party’s hard left direction. But this week, things are coming to a head. The anti-Semitism sore has flared up again – Stephen Bush tells us on the podcast that the witch hunt against Luciana Berger has shocked many moderates in the party. Labour’s fudgy Brexit position is also in the limelight as Theresa May continues to fail to bash through the Brussels defence, with MPs who support a second referendum disheartened by Corbyn’s ambivalence towards it. In this week’s cover article, Nick Cohen writes that a new party may be born very soon – and why not? Given all the political upsets of the last three years, he argues that a shake-up of our two-party system is not outside the realms of possibility. Isabel Hardman talks to Nick and Stephen in an intellectual, informed conversation, strategising the next steps for the Labour party and its factions:
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