The big event for me personally this week was not Theresa May finally giving up, or explicit Remain parties easily beating explicit No Deal parties in the European election. It was the belated launch of my book to nearly 500 people at King’s College London at an event superbly organised by the Progressive Economic Forum. But don’t worry. This article is not going to be an account of that meeting or a summary of my book, but an attempt to give a fuller answer to a question from that meeting.
The questioner had just witnessed at first hand the passion of a Brexit Party meeting, also well described by John Harris, Sky News’ Lewis Goodall, Owen Jones and other journalists. She asked what could be done to diffuse that anger? Thinking about the answer I gave afterwards helped me understand more clearly the overall strategy implicit in much of what I write. This does not focus on the people who attended first Ukip and now Brexit Party meetings, but instead the less committed voter who voted for Brexit, the classic marginal voter if you like. Let me give you an example of something that is discussed in the book but using a new chart, from the Berkman Klein Center.
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