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With Trump as president-elect, and the populist right on the rise in Europe, will Britain manage to stand its ground?

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Michael Binyon is an English journalist and currently a Leader Writer for The Times. He was a winner of two British journalism prizes in 1979 and 1980 for his reporting from Russia and awarded an OBE ...

James Crabtree is Director of Public Services at the Institute for Public Policy Research. He worked previously in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and in 2008 worked for Barack Obama's campaign in ...