Johnson and Starmer fight for the working-class vote
Labour has a chance of recapturing the territory it lost
THE BLACK LIVES MATTER movement has convulsed British politics. Large crowds have marched in Whitehall and Bristol. Statues of former slave-owners have been felled and others are in the felling-line. It sometimes looks as if Britain is turning into America—and that the major galvanising force in politics will soon be race rather than class.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Battle for the working class”
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