Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election marks a new stage in the collapse of the right-wing Labour Party and of Britain’s two-party system. In a constituency held continuously by Labour since 1931—a solidly working-class stronghold in south-east Manchester—the party was pushed into third place as its vote collapsed. Such is the …
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The coming British Election is showing up two radically different angles about how democracies should work. Lee Duffield writes on the stand-off between the “reactionaries” and the “socialists”. THE FIRST BRITISH POLLS for the 2019 Election suggested we prepare for a Tory victory, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson forcing through …
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