Parliament, human rights and judges – Brexiteers see all of these as impediments to their increasingly autocratic leaders. And their longstanding attacks are getting bolder.
A resurgent “Europe of citizens” has fended off the challenge from the “Europe of Fatherlands”. What remains now is to deal with a discredited “Brussels elite”.
Brexit department claims Chris Heaton-Harris “wasn’t acting in a ministerial capacity” – but he discussed Brexit with the controversial far-right Vox party, prompting calls for an investigation.
As I’ve learned in the European Parliament, publicly debating with Farage and his bad-cop UKIP outliers often merely boosts their communication strategy, writes Molly Scott-Cato MEP.
This current political crisis is not just about how the Brexit stand-off is resolved. The challenge is to show that Britain can handle a democratic election in polarised times.
