Melanie Onn: “What Brexit means for people is hardening all the time”
The story of this year’s local elections was Tory obliteration. The party lost 1,296 councillors, hundreds more than even the gloomiest pollsters predicted. But a few…
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Eleni Courea is political reporter at The Times.
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