Boris Johnson seeks to divide and conquer with his incendiary rhetoric | Andrew Rawnsley

He and Dominic Cummings regard the amplification of hatred not with regret but as essential to electoral success

There’s a case to be made that British democracy is not in dreadful trouble but working quite well. Or at least as well as can be expected in extreme circumstances. Even under the intense stress of the Brexit crisis, our spatchcock constitution is just about keeping it together.

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