On the streets of a marginal seat, I’ve seen how remain disunity could seal Brexit | Timothy Garton Ash

In Putney, Labour and the Lib Dems are canvassing hard. Without tactical voting here and elsewhere, both will lose out

Will you be voting for us?” asks the Liberal Democrat canvasser on the doorstep of an expensive-looking house in Putney. “No,” replies the middle-aged man standing in the doorway, “I’ll be voting for democracy.” We all understand what he means: Conservative, to fulfil the promise of the 2016 referendum and not simply to revoke Brexit, as the Lib Dems propose to do. My father, who lived most of his life just up the road from here, might well have given the same answer.

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