Britain after Brexit

Abstract: The national mood in Britain is sour. The general election of July 2024 had brought a change of government after fourteen years of increasingly detested Conservative rule. However, relief at ousting the Conservatives did not reflect wholehearted endorsement of a new Labour government whose parliamentary dominance owed far more to the distortions of an archaic electoral system than to genuine popularity of the party or its leadership. This article examines the sorry state of British politics in the light of ideological divisions leading to, and following, Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in 2020.