Was this the revenge of the liberal metropolitan elite? – Telegraph.co.uk

So it looks like there really was a post-Brexit realignment just not in the way pundits expected. Theresa May really did make inroads into the Leavey north and Midlands (for instance,taking Stoke South). And Remainers may have taken the election as a second referendum, coalescing around the choice they thought would ensure the softest Brexit.

But why was that so overwhelmingly Labour, rather than the Lib Dems? Aren't many Remainers supposed to be free trade centrists, not socialists? Part of the answer is surely that Labour seemed more likely to win, Beyond that with the disclaimer that this is all very early and tentative I canthink of two main possibilities.

The first is that all the vagueness and vacillation that fascinated political observers about Mr Corbyn either escaped or did not bothermost voters. Perhaps that's because Labour's pre-existing reputation for Europhilia trumped the minutiae of its positioning (once upon a time focus groups regularly said they had no idea what Labour's policy on Brexit was). Or perhaps Mr Corbyn's vagueness was successful in letting everyone read into his words what they wanted. He was therefore perceived as the Remain candidate by those who were looking for one.

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