Noah Millman
Jul 08, 2021 8:20 PM ET
In Europe today, the most viable traditional parties are often mainstream right-wing parties that have sought to coopt the nationalist right s issues most notably Boris Johnson s Tory Party, which eclipsed UKIP by adopting Brexit for itself or parties self-consciously constituted around the technocratic center so as to unite the mainstream against the far right. True left-wing parties like Jean-Luc Mélenchon s in France or Jeremy Corbyn s Labour have largely fizzled. Meanwhile, the far right continues to produce new phenomena, most recently France s Eric Zemmour, who has outflanked Le Pen on the right by being even more nationalist than she is.
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Comment Nicola Sturgeon is in no hurry to call a referendum, because it is Boris Johnson that faces the real risk of ruinous mistakes AS the victors’ rejoicing wears down, I don’t think many people will in the long run regard the Scottish Parliament election as having been a good one. Scotland remains on a knife edge, as equally divided as before, which makes sure many voters will remain as dissatisfied as ever too. In the last seven years, we have had two referendums, a pandemic, three UK elections and two Scottish elections. You would think this might be enough, yet here we are looking for another referendum and perhaps further polls of various kinds.
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