The EU referendum has given the Tories a nasty attack of the Trumps | Simon Jenkins

David Cameron was meant to have detoxified his party of its Brussels plague. But the disease is back – and it’s worse than ever

Name-calling, rubbishing, fearmongering, mendacity, xenophobia, talk of building walls and destroying reputations: that is just the Tory party.

At least America has seven months to recover from Trumpitis. Britain has to compress the modern politician’s instinct to polarise into four.

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