A populist, Bogdanor suggests, is someone who believes that the traditional governing parties of moderate left and moderate right, which claim to oppose each other, in reality form a consensus, since they agree upon basic issues. In Britain, France, and the United States, for example, the main parties agreed on the benefits of immigration and the advantages of globalization. In Britain, the three major parties favored Britain’s continued membership in the European Union. The people did not. In another of the squibs he argued that the real debate is not between left and right but between the
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