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Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee is a columnist for the Guardian. She was formerly BBC social affairs editor, columnist and associate editor of the Independent, co-editor of the Washington Monthly and a reporter and feature writer for the Observer
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Many will lose seats for failing to obey their Brexit-voting electorates. They should do it anyway. They have a higher responsibility
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Brexit has made the UK desperate supplicants, but the prime minister shouldn’t bring shame on us by rushing to meet a president who is unfit to hold any office
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The justices ruled that parliament must vote before article 50 can be triggered. Our panel responds to the latest Brexit development
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One Conservative leader is resisting his party’s cuts. Maybe he will start an epidemic of truth-telling
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The Corbyn critic has every reason to feel less then thrilled about being a Labour MP right now. But he has a duty to his constituents, and to democracy itself
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With Trump and Brexit looming, I can’t say that things will get better next year. But I do know that things will get worse if we don’t fight
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Politicians already kowtow to the News Corp owner. Someone must stand up to his bullying and stop the spread of his brand of toxic vitriol
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Southern rail’s appalling service means people are losing jobs, while in the north lines are left to rot. Train users must take action now
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Parliamentarians should be willing to intervene on Brexit if they get the chance, and ready for ferocious hostility
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The autumn statement revealed just how much leaving the EU is likely to cost us – and the chancellor dared not tell us this was what we’d wished on ourselves
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Our writers give their reaction to chancellor Philip Hammond’s first autumn statement
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With Wednesday’s autumn statement, the Tories could begin to revive our public services and the ailing NHS. But they won’t
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If ministers are willing to protect car firms from the ravages of Brexit, why not all of us who were lied to?
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Labour should not contest the Richmond byelection. Instead, it should give the Lib Dems a clear run to beat the constituency’s hard Brexit MP
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