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Bob Pickard: This guy hasn’t even taken office...

This guy hasn’t even taken office, yet a remarkable intensity of duelling mainstream and social media narratives with clashing image development and character assassination agendas. The next British PM’s extraordinary and controversial method of arriving at this point – and now poised to take power – puts the pressure on him to show he’s got the goods and motivates his critics to define him unfavourably even before the get-go.

Liz Webster: Brexit madness!...

Brexit madness! Matthew Elliott says the next election will be a rerun of Brexit, then argues we should stop looking backwards because the world has changed. But if Brexit is still the defining political issue 10 years on, that tells you something. He points to the EU’s declining share of global GDP, yet ignores geography and the fact that the EU remains the UK’s largest trading partner by far. The question was never whether Asia would grow faster than Europe. It was whether Britain would be more prosperous outside the Single Market than inside it. That’s the comparison Brexit still hasn’t won.
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