A Labour peer downplayed the original proposal as a ’third or fourth order‘ issue to the general public, as a think tank brands hunting an issue of ’liberty.’
The UK’s main opposition Labour Party named Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions who opposed the country’s exit from the European Union.
Like many election years, 2015 was a strange time for British politics. But the vote, which put the Tories in power, was only the prelude. Things got truly bizarre in the latter half of the year when the opposition stopped showing up for work.