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The Brexit omertà Why both main parties are scared to mention the B word

“Get Brexit done” was the promise, repeated to the point of tedium, that took Boris Johnson’s Conservatives to a landslide victory in Britain’s 2019 election. But the subject – for so long the defining issue in UK politics – has barely featured in the current campaign.

Keir Starmer, whose Labour party is 20 percentage points ahead on the average of opinion polls, hardly mentions Britain’s relationship with the EU.

Anand Menon, the director of the thinktank UK in a Changing Europe, said: “There is an underlying nervousness because Starmer is felt

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