If you want a vision of the future, imagine an upper-class voice yelling, “Get Brexit done” for ever, as the paralysis and failure deepens. Last week I was at the Labour party conference, where Brexit was a reliable source of angst and division, and the often rancorous atmosphere regularly suggested yet more impending doom. The list of policies announced and adopted in Brighton cohered around a central spine of ideas that were much bolder than the party’s 2017 manifesto. Some of the party’s new ideas reflect the radical environmentalism of Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes. But it also calls time on the pre-referendum idea that politics can never be about big, radical ideas.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2019 05:01 UTC