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Theresa May will be Britain’s next prime minister
JUST when it looked like Westminster was settling into a long summer of party-leadership elections, Andrea Leadsom this morning cut the Conservative contest short by withdrawing from the race...
If Labour won’t stand up for Remain voters, it’s time for a new party
BARELY more than a week has gone by since 37% of eligible British voters backed Brexit—52% of those who participated—but already the political landscape is transformed. With Boris Johnson...
Britain is sailing into a storm with no one at the wheel
IT WAS a troubling exchange. On live television Faisal Islam, the political editor of SkyNews, was recounting a conversation with a pro-Brexit Conservative MP. “I said to him: ‘Where’s...
David Cameron quits Downing Street with a ruined legacy
“THE British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected.” With these words David Cameron acknowledged an outcome that he doubted would materialise:...
Beware the “Brintroverts”
Have polls putting Leave ahead overlooked shy, indecisive and hard-to-reach voters?
The price of caring
SOME reports have it that Thomas Mair, the 52-year-old man arrested for yesterday’s fatal attack on Jo Cox, a Labour MP, was waiting for her outside the Yorkshire library...
Leave is gaining ground. But do not rule out Remain just yet
THE EU referendum race is getting too close for comfort. In The Economist’s poll-of-polls, Leave is ahead by two points. A survey published by ORB on Friday gave it...
Young voters! Your country needs you
AT THE end of today, Tuesday June 7th, many of those eligible to vote in Britain’s EU referendum will lose the chance to do so. As a consequence, they...