Just as in Anthony Albanese’s blue-collar rhetoric, Brexit has pushed Keir Starmer’s Labour away from Tony Blair’s post-class modernisation and globalism.
by a rain-bedraggled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, is set to reverse Labour’s huge defeat in 2019 and send the Conservative Party, of which Mr Sunak is the fifth prime minister in eight years, into anof its own. Depending on how the numbers play out in Britain’s first-past-the-post voting, Labour’s consistent average 21 point polling lead might even turn its 90 seat loss to Boris Johnson into a 1997 Tony Blair-style landslide.Mr Johnson paid a steep price for personal scandals during the pandemic.
Goldman Sachs calculated this year that Brexit has made the British economy 5 per cent smaller than otherwise. Brexit was politically incoherent too, appealing to a coalition of voters who wanted completely different things from it. Wealthy southern voters saw a lower-taxing paradise of deregulated globalisation; many northern ex-Labour “red wall” voters thought that’s what leaving the EU would protect them from.
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