Starmer’s tough line on Brexit made Johnson expendable to Leavers | The Observer
“The point is that Brexit doesn’t work and cannot be made to work. The Labour leader seems obsessed with the third of Labour voters who were misled by what Lord Heseltine calls Johnson’s ‘pack of lies’ during the referendum campaign. It is absurd to say we cannot go back on that so-called ‘democratic’ referendum outcome. In a democracy – which I think we still are – just! – the electorate can change its mind every time there is a general election.
Now, I have news for the Labour leader. I get around quite a lot and have met many a Labour voter in the past week. Every one of them has been shocked by his U-turn on Brexit. Every one of them has said that as a result, they are going to vote Lib Dem in the next election. Offending two-thirds of your electorate in order to please one-third – who by now ought to realise they were conned anyway? Funny old electoral strategy.”
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Protesters against Brexit and Boris Johnson outside the Houses of Parliament last month. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
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