1. Letters.
- Author
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MACSHANE, DENIS, YOUNGE, GARY, HIRA, RON, and ABRAMSKY, SASHA
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GREEN cards , *FOREIGN workers , *LABOR laws , *WAGE laws , *INTERNATIONAL competition , *UNEMPLOYMENT insurance , *BREXIT Referendum, 2016 - Abstract
Re "After Corbyn, After Covid" by Gary Younge [June 1/8 ]: As an ex - Labour MP and ex-minister for Europe, I would like to qualify the conventional wisdom from him that the UK chose "to leave the European Union in a referendum. But in Labour seats in the North - and I represented one for 18 years - while the totality voted for Brexit, most identifiable Labour voters did not. The fact is the Remain campaign was poorly run, and Labour voters backed Remain by the same margin as Scottish National Party voters. [Extracted from the article]
- Published
- 2020