Ten years after Brexit, this is the UK: a divided nation frozen in time | Aditya Chakrabortty

Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious On 23 June 2016, the British voter changed. Before that day, they picked a party, usually red or blue. By that morning, only two tribes mattered: remain or leave. And they kept mattering long, long after the result was declared. Rather than bin those short-lived and now stale allegiances, voters made them their personas. No longer a “Labour man” or a “Conservat...

By Aditya Chakrabortty