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The days when coal and smoking were hot

Midsummer this year brought much conversation about the outcome of Brexit, seven years on. Michael Heseltine predicted that when our generation pops off, the younger people will revise and correct the Brexit question.

Perhaps. But there is also a theory that everything could change again. If Continental Europe produces more right-wing regimes, like Hungary, Poland and Italy, the liberal remainers could become the patriotic leavers – and the other way round, too.

Since all political alignments have changed in my lifetime,

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