
To Defeat Far-Right Nationalists, Don’t Try to Imitate Them
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government in Britain is in turmoil. But the resignations that have rocked it in recent days — even that of Boris Johnson, who was until recently her obsessively ambitious foreign secretary — risk blinding us to a simple truth: The big reason Mrs. May’s party is in so much trouble over Brexit is that it is determined at all costs to end “the free movement of people” that, even for those European countries outside the European Union, is a condition of belonging to the bloc’s single market.
Why are Britain’s Conservatives so set on that course, despite the fact that access to that market is vital to the prosperity of the country they govern?… Seguir leyendo »