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Amendment After Amendment, But It’s Too Late For Theresa May

The Prime Minister has bought herself precious time, but at the cost of a deal she knows she cannot deliver. If Parliamentary incompetence needed making any more apparent, Tuesday night’s voting slew certainly did the job. Two of six amendments succeeded in gaining a majority. First to pass was the so-called Spelman agreement, an expression of Parliament’s opposition to no...

Published on 01 Feb 2019

Northerners: Theresa May Only Cares About You When She Needs A Favour

Cash-strapped, investment-deprived Northern communities: yours is a common theme in any story of 21st-century Britain.For decades, your towns that were once the industrial heartland of our country have been neglected by governments unwilling to consider your fate when planning infrastructure projects and agreeing on budgets.Yet only now, when she desperately needs a favour to back her rubbish Brexit deal, does...

Published on 31 Jan 2019

Talking To Our Future, Our Choice: Time For A Change?

When Renew met outside Parliament for the ‘meaningful vote’ on Theresa May’s Brexit deal, we bumped into Our Future, Our Choice’s footsoldier Femi Oluwole. A permanent fixture these days on the streets of Westminster, Femi and OFOC campaign for a ‘People’s Vote’ on the Brexit issue, using hard facts to try and convince people of their cause.Within this context, we...

Published on 30 Jan 2019

Fight Back Against Brexit’s Disaster Capitalists

We take a look at the worrying ideas behind Brexit’s wealthiest backers. Bitcoin wasn’t invented in the 21st century. In 1997, Lord Rees-Mogg, father of Jacob, helped write a book called The Sovereign Individual. In it, he made a number of bold predictions about the future. One of those was the probable rise of a “new digital form of money”...

Published on 29 Jan 2019

Where I Want Britain To Be In 20 Years

In this opinion piece, Renew supporter Toby Schuster sets out his vision for 21st-century Britain. No matter where you stand on all the various issues that are currently testing the country to its limits, I think we can all agree that over the last 24 months civic life has become more tribal, political debate more toxic and the general atmosphere...

Published on 28 Jan 2019

Brexit is a Distraction: Here's What We Really Need to Tackle

In the midst of ongoing Brexit upheaval, with tensions mounting and growing resentment on both sides of the debate, it seems that almost all other matters have fallen by the wayside. Recent polling has found that 60% of the British public now feel that the government is spending too much time on Brexit, and not enough time on issues like healthcare and...

Published on 25 Jan 2019

RENEW BLOG

Amendment After Amendment, But It’s Too Late For Theresa May

Northerners: Theresa May Only Cares About You When She Needs A Favour

Talking To Our Future, Our Choice: Time For A Change?

Fight Back Against Brexit’s Disaster Capitalists

Where I Want Britain To Be In 20 Years

Brexit is a Distraction: Here's What We Really Need to Tackle