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Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen Lunchtime summary Ed Miliband on the lessons progressives can learn from Trump Afternoon summary 3.38pm GMT Philip Hammond says China and the UK are enjoying a "golden era"...

There is a conceit among many senior editors in the U.K. that Britain has “the best journalism in the world.” At its best, certainly, British journalism is very good indeed. From the sober analysis of the Financial Times and the Economist to the tub...

We have so many aspirations for big data and evidence based policy, but apparently a fatally limited capacity to see the obvious: voters were furious about immigration during the EU referendum campaigns. Techniques exist to build better empirical evidence...

It’s now two months since the UK’s EU referendum, but all has gone rather quiet on the Brexit front. The British voted for Brexit, not only has it not happened, but it has not even begun to happen – Article 50 to trigger the start of the exit process...

‘Remain’ Champion Jeremy Corbyn: EU Membership Means NO Immigration Limit 19 June 2016 by Victoria  Friedman In a stunningly honest admission by Labour leader and Remain campaigner Jeremy Corbyn, a vote to remain as member of the European Union (EU...