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ON Saturday October 20, as many as 700,000 people marched in central London on the issue of Brexit.
The march was headlined about being around a People’s Vote on the terms of Brexit, but it’s clear that numbers of participants including Lib Dems and hard-line anti-Brexit New Labour supporters simply wanted another referendum so that people who voted the “wrong” way last time can have another ago.
That doesn’t strike me as being either liberal or democratic, but the march also raised some wider points.
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