Articles by Lavinia Thompson

The way I see it, the issue of the moment is whether in the wake of the EU Referendum the UK is now in the grip of worrying or exciting times. The true answer may be probably be both – and I guess it may depend upon which side of the political spectrum and indeed Brexit argument you stand. We [...]

After what has been an extraordinary political week for the United Kingdom, the continent of Europe and indeed probably the world – like I suspect most Rust readers, I spent much of yesterday watching the aftermath of the EU Referendum result unfold in the media. I’ll leave the expert political [...]

Last night I watched the BBC big EU Referendum set piece The Great Debate at 8.00pm on BBC1, featuring David Dimbleby as host; a cast of about 8,000 voters in the audience at Wembley Arena; and Boris Johnson, Labour MP Gisela Stuart and Tory minister Andrea Leadsom representing ‘Leave’ and Scot [...]

With just over a week to go to the vote on the EU Referendum there is a certain inevitability about a number of aspects. Both sides are now frenetically reviewing their campaign strategies on a daily basis and accordingly deploying different spokespeople peddling different ‘stories’ in order to [...]

My overnight (Saturday into Sunday) trawl of the newspaper websites has revealed reports that Labour MP Chuka Umunna is claiming that if the Referendum outcome is a Brexit victory it will be a win for Far Right ‘dog whistle’ politics; that the latest polls show that the two opposing campaigns [...]