The future lay with the left, natural believers in the power of good government and international co-operation, in particular the EU. What is obvious, looking back, is that the right did not so much win the 2010s as the liberal left lost them. Will the liberal left gift the 2020s to the right in the same way? It remains true that addressing the challenges of our times falls more naturally to the liberal left than the right. It is not only social democracy at stake but, as Britain dissolves into an one-party state, liberal democracy itself.

Source: The Guardian December 29, 2019 08:00 UTC