This is Britain’s most important election since Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1979, a fight for the country’s heart and soul. On December 12, Britons will decide whether to face some uncertainties of life outside the European Union, or to enter the uncharted waters of a wild far-left experiment that may unmoor them from the whole Western alliance.
At the end of it, one of the country’s great political parties may lie shattered. A vanquished Labour will resume an existential fight over Marxist control of the party. If the Conservatives lose, then everything - their reputation as the natural party of government, their Brexit, and even the United Kingdom itself - will have been consumed by their obsession with Europe.
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