Despite securing a supermajority with the lowest vote share in history, Labour claims a mandate it does not have, says Stephen Bailey. During Margaret Thatcher’s time in office (1979–1990), extreme-left Labour MP Tony Benn (current Northern Ireland Minister Hilary Benn’s father) angrily, as was his wont, dismissed the then Conservative Government as a “constitutional dictatorship”. … Continue reading What Mandate? Labour’s Constitutional Dictatorship Is Forcing Us into a Vichy UK