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The failure to take responsibility for Brexit is corrupting the right

The failure to take responsibility for Brexit is corrupting the right

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Apr 23, 2023
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It has become a progressive cliché to portray Conservatives as the new Marxists: men and women who are psychologically incapable of understanding that their revolution was a terrible error. “ Communism  Brexit hasn’t failed,” they cry. “It’s just never been properly tried.”

They cannot discuss, let alone seek to remedy, the econ…

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