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The anti-Brexit campaign is dead and four other lessons from the general election

Theresa May is a fragile prime minister, a new age of intervention has begun and the two party system is back.

By George Eaton

The anti-Brexit campaign is dead

Remainers vowed to use the general election to take revenge. In defiance of the 48 per cent who voted for EU membership, Theresa May had committed to a “hard Brexit”. Traditional party allegiances, it was said, would be cast aside as voters punished the Prime Minister.

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