Leaders | The British election
The middle has fallen out of British politics
The leaders of both main parties have turned away from a decades-old vision of an open, liberal country
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Britain’s missing middle”
From the June 3rd 2017 edition
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