Comment: The Brexit I have fought so hard against will now happen – despite the fact that 52 per cent of the votes cast across the UK went to political parties backing a second referendum | CatherineWest1
In the end, it wasn’t even close. The Conservatives have returned to power in Britain with their biggest majority since Margaret Thatcher’s 1987 victory. No more hung Parliament and no more doubt that Brexit will go ahead, with the withdrawal bill likely to pass Parliament before Christmas.For my party, the Labour Party, the result was devastating. Despite nine years of crippling austerity, Labour’s promise of real change just didn’t cut through.
But in many of the northern, traditionally Labour, heartlands that voted to leave the EU back in 2016, Labour has lost and it has lost big. That can’t all be explained by Brexit, and Labour needs a serious period of reflection before we attempt to move forward. But without doubt, Brexit played a role.I believe it was absolutely right to back a final-say referendum, and it was something I’d long called for, but I fear we didn’t succeed in explainingto leavers.
The strength of the Conservative’s victory is particularly devastating because Johnson ran a campaign based on stoking fear and division. He condemned the three million EU migrants who have made Britain their home, our friends, our neighbours, for “treating the UK like it’s part of their own country”.
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