What Brexit gives, Brexit takes away. Theresa May owed her position to her predecessor’s failed EU referendum gamble. Now her own gamble on a Brexit mandate has failed. A remarkable campaign, which saw towering 20-point poll leads crumble to nothing, has culminated in an even more remarkable result. …
After a year in which Brexiters dominated the political agenda, it was the Remainers who struck back last week. While there was a small swing to the Conservatives in the seats with the largest Leave votes, Labour ran rampant in the Remain strongholds. …
Britain’s class politics has been turned completely upside down in 2017. Wealthy professionals in leafy suburbs have swung behind a Labour leader who pledges to sharply increase their taxes, while it was struggling blue-collar workers in deprived and declining seats who were most attracted by the party of austerity cuts to public services and welfare. CONT.
Robert Ford (U. of Manchester), The Guardian