Britain’s Populist Moment
Is Great Britain on the brink of a Trump revolution?
The president’s visit to the U.K. coincides with indications Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government is tottering.
Starmer’s own party increasingly thinks he has to go—and if Labour fares as poorly as polls suggest it will in local elections next May, Starmer will be out.
His downfall could arrive sooner: Scandals have taken out three of his key aides and allies already this month.
The British right, meanwhile, is showing signs of renewed vigor.
More than 110,000 people flocked to London last weekend for the hard-right activist Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally.
Yet, perversely, Robinson might be the best friend Labour has—the one man who can divide the right enough to keep Britain’s anti-populist Left in power.
Egging Robinson on is an American billionaire who has thought about splitting the right in this country, too: Elon Musk.
Britain is a battlefield—between left and right, populists and insiders, and between bitterly opposed factions within each side.
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