Immigration Fears on Both Sides of the Atlantic

To the naked eye, London seems as when I lived there in the 2000s. Londoners still mind the gap between the train and the platform, close the pubs early, serve sausages quite foul and occupy buildings, parks and “high streets” that are a joy to behold. But there is deep disquiet in the air, and it seems to stem from Brexit.The malaise is severe enough to have created a sort-of political Halley’s Comet: near-universal acceptance that the opposition will win the election that must be held by the end of the year. Sir Kier Starmer, the ex-prosecutor and head of the Labour Party, is generally…