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Hello and welcome to The Spectator podcast. I'm Katie Balls.

This week, as the country goes to the polls for the European elections, we ask,

Has Brexit devoured the far left? I also speak to an unlikely Boris supporter, Matthew Paris,

on the merits of a Bojo leadership for Remainers. And last, do you own books to read or to show off?

First up, Labour's constructive ambiguity on Brexit has served it well since the 2017 election.

But as the country votes in European elections this week, has the party miscalculated in being too ambiguous?

Nick Cohen writes in this week's cover article, that Labour should have positioned itself as the party of Remain, and now it faces being

picked off by the Lib Dems on one side and the Brexit party on the other. To discuss,

Sienna Rogers, editor of Labor List, joins me now. And Nick joins us down the line.

Nick, in your cover piece in this week's spectator, you say Labor is being picked apart by new enemies.

What do you mean by that?

Well, what I mean is the anger in Liberal England, the absolutely white-hot anger about what is happening to the country, about

the threat of no deal Brexit, is just tearing through the old Labour constituency, driving

voters away in their millions, and Labour in a pattern, you know, anyone who studies history

be very familiar with. Corbyn and Co. arrive in power, claiming to be great radicals and revolutionaries and all the rest of it.

And suddenly they look very, very conservative figures who can't understand the forces that work around them.

And you can see it's happening in the local elections.

You can see it happening, I local elections you can see it happening

I'm sure you'll see it happening today's European elections of people who were Labor

giving up on the party because on the great issue of the day the most important question facing

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