We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist as always.

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Today we're joined by Matthew Goodwin, author of the very interesting new book, Values

Voice and Virtue, the new British politics, he's a professor of politics at the University

of Kent.

That book will be out on March 30th.

Matthew, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me, Emily.

You might be able to hear the distant bells of Westminster in the background where I'm

speaking to you from, but it's great to be with you.

Oh my God, save the king then.

I'll start with a quote here.

We rate a majority of British people voted to leave the EU so the joke goes.

But ever since Brexit, our politics has become far more European, more populist, emotional,

polarized, unstable and prone to the same political gridlock that has paralyzed our

neighbors prompting the economist in 2022 to rename the country, Brittalee.

To a lot of American observers who had Brexit on their radar, sort of dipped in, saw the

parallels with Trumpism, which we're happening basically at the same time.

Maybe they didn't follow this until they heard about the disastrous tenure of Lestras,

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