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The EU Leave vote should not be subverted by extreme anti-democrats
DOUG NICHOLLS warns of new and urgent dangers arising from the opposition to Brexit

JEREMY CORBYN was quite right to say in an interview with the German Der Spiegel magazine that Brexit cannot be stopped and Keir Starmer was quite wrong to contradict him almost immediately.

Parliament in its current form, especially the House of Commons, is the product of a long battle for the truly universal franchise for all those over 18. 

The battle for parliamentary democracy started in 1649 and ended in 1969. Like it or loathe it, the British people have invested their hopes and sense of democracy in it. 

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