Why a ‘Brexit Election’ Will Make Things Worse
A national vote in the run-up to Britain’s deadline to withdraw from the European Union will be dangerous.
Britain has many specialties: queues, talking about the weather, the perfect cup of tea. It might be about to add another—public votes that don’t solve any of the country’s problems.
In five years, Britain has held four of these: general elections in 2015 and 2017, the Scottish independence referendum of 2014, and the European Union referendum two years later. Now, as Parliament returns from its summer break, another election seems imminent. Outside Downing Street yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he did not “want” a general election. The implication, however, was that one might be to resolve the parliamentary deadlock. Less than two months remain before Britain is scheduled
