What would Labour’s ‘progressive’ foreign policy mean for Ireland?

The spirit of Ernest Bevin, a trade union bruiser who rose to Foreign Secretary after World War Two, was channelled heavily by David Lammy this week in a major 4,000-word essay on his party’s diplomatic agenda.

Lammy, who hopes to follow in Bevin’s footsteps after the next general election, is championing the idea of “progressive realism” while attempting to draw a thread from the foreign policy of the party’s post-war government to the polarised and ...