Appealing to Leavers and Remainers has failed : we must prevent a hard Brexit
Voting in the European elections is over, with the results about to come in. The Tory leadership race, which will be won by a hardline Brexiter, has just begun. Everyone who cares about the Labour party and the country is braced with a sense of despair.
I want reports of high turnout in Remain areas to reflect a huge gain in votes for Labour. I fear that won’t be the case. Pessimistic predictions put Labour in third place in the EU election, behind Nigel Farage’s far-right party and the born-again Liberal Democrats. Even optimists have us in second place, nowhere near the percentage of votes we’d need to win a general election.
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