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Britain’s foreign policy always has been to keep one country from dominating Europe. Farage of UKIP and Johnson of the Tories managed to pull off their goal of getting Britain out of the EU, but it will permanently stunt Britain’s economy in the end because Britain got rid of its biggest trading partner.

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Just today, Sir Keir Starmer, the likely next prime minister, admitted his growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets.

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Starmer is correct, but I doubt the Tories will cooperate.

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If Labor gets a supermajority, as some predict (and others dread), it won't much matter what the Tories want.

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I hope they do, but here in the U.S. our Republicans funded with big money and an artificial majority want to lord it over the rest of us, and we can get nothing positive done.

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That's the irony. Republicans in the US are actually a minority but Big Money allows them to cast an outsized shadow over America politics.

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