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Politics & IR Academic | Consultant researcher @lse_ccs | Co-host and producer @another_europe | Email: l.w.cooper@lse.ac.uk |
Aug 10, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
Long Brexit survey from YouGov with some interesting findings. Full results well worth looking at. It confirms the now standard pattern of a consistent Remain lead but with a still stubbornly high Leave vote (53 vs 47%). However... /1

d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_upload… There is a big decline in support for a 'no deal Brexit' which now stands at 27% (down from 38% in the poll from the earlier in the month) /2
Jul 21, 2018 9 tweets 3 min read
So here’s my response to @AyoCaesar on #newsnight:

- I respect this position but it’s very difficult to see a scenario that the far right can’t profit from.
- So if we break these scenarios down then they all look beneficial to the far right: /1 —— (a) Soft Brexit gives them the betrayal narrative they crave. We’ve already seen an electoral bounce for UKIP over the govt’s new soft Brexit policy (at a time when Ukip is obviously making a turn to the fascist street movement). /2