Denmark shows how Labour can defeat the populist right
Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have transformed the immigration debate to the centre left’s advantage.
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Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is a founding director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the first pan-European think tank.
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