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    Patrick Cox
    • Sep 14, 2016
    • 5 min

    Brexit Breakdown: Labour

    Brexit has the potential to ground the Labour Party for good. The Labour Party has fared worse from the vote to leave the EU than any other party. That might seem like hyperbole considering that the Conservatives had their Prime Minister resign less than a year after winning a first election victory for 18 years. Yet political power has a curiously cohesive quality and the Tories are still united - in public at least. The Labour Party faces an existential crisis for which the

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    Patrick Cox
    • Aug 25, 2016
    • 3 min

    Brexit Breakdown: UKIP

    UKIP wanted to leave the EU. So why do they look set to lose so much following their victory? David Cameron famously called the EU referendum in order to 'shoot the UKIP fox': to once and for all nullify calls to leave the EU. If one thing is for sure it's that UKIP dodged those particular guns. Incredibly though, it seems that, having raided the henhouse the fox has now choked on the spoils. How have the only apparent winners in the Brexit breakdown themselves fallen so quic

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    Patrick Cox
    • Aug 17, 2016
    • 2 min

    Brexit breakdown

    Brexit has taken a hammer to our political norms. Where damage has been done to the different political parties? The dust has started to settle on the referendum vote on Britain’s relationship with the EU. At this point it seems appropriate to reach for the hyperbole – a most historic moment in British history, a decision that changes everything, a revolution, even. The referendum vote is undoubtedly a marker, and a significant political event. There were numerous reasons for

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