Much like America in 2016, reality doesn't carry much weight in the United Kingdom right now | Analysis by lukemcgee
Facts, figures, real comments made by real people. Just as in the last US presidential election, none of them seem to have much impact on how the political class is behaving, nor how the general public views them.The contest to replace Theresa May as prime minister next month has quite reasonably focused on the Brexit plans of the final two contenders, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.
New-look Boris Johnson emerges as Tory frontrunner 02:51It's not just the leadership hopefuls, nor the hardline Brexiteers, who are living in this parallel universe. The continuity-remainers who regret that Brexit ever happened and want to scrap it are entering their final push to convince the official opposition Labour party to back a second referendum. There's two problems here.
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