Christian Wolmar, Labour’s candidate to face Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond Park byelection, has insisted it is right for the party to contest the seat. This is not a time when Labour should abandon the field to a rightwing party and a slightly right-of-centre party. We are the anti-austerity party,” Wolmar said. Advocates of a “progressive alliance” between left-of-centre parties suggested Labour could have stood aside, perhaps in exchange for the Lib Dems not standing against the Labour MP Ruth Cadbury in the neighbouring Brentford and Isleworth seat at the next general election. The ruling means May cannot trigger article 50 without giving parliament a say.

Source: The Guardian November 06, 2016 15:06 UTC