Labour and the “trend of Bregret”
The “trend of Bregret” — people who supported Brexit changing their minds — “is accelerating and looks set to cause a growing problem for the... Conservative Party”, wrote Matthew Goodwin, an academic focused on the Eurosceptic hard right, on 18 November. It may — it should — cause a problem for the Labour leadership too. Goodwin identifies the main things driving this as “younger and more pro-EU voters entering the electorate and people who did not vote at the 2016 referendum changing their mind”. In any case, it is indisputable. The view that Brexit was right has not held a lead in polls...