How Labour’s Working-Class Vote Crumbled and Its Nemesis Won the North


By BY BENJAMIN MUELLER
World
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The Labour Party’s devastating defeat in an ex-stronghold has grave consequences for a party: Its two wings — older and working class and urban and educated — appear to have irreconcilable differences.
New York Times
Elections, Voting and Voters, Politics and Government, Mines and Mining, Great Britain Withdrawal from EU (Brexit), Legislatures and Parliaments, Labor and Jobs, Immigration and Emigration
December 13, 2019 at 11:33PM

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