Labour hopelessly split on Article 50

The vote on the Article 50 bill exposed deep fissures within the Labour party, says Matthew Partridge.

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Jeremy Corbyn: unable to build bridges
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Last week the government published the text of a bill allowing it to trigger Article 50. However, Corbyn's insistence that Labour MPs support the bill triggered a revolt by dozens of his own MPs, says the FT. Indeed, several frontbenchers have resigned over the issue, while others have pointed out that on "other contentious votes" Labour MPs received a free vote. Labour "faces a uniquely painful conundrum", says George Eaton in The New Statesman.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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