Cable: Brexit has led to UK civil war
THE “toxic” fall-out from the Brexit referendum is fuelling the rise of the populist right in Britain, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has warned.
In his speech to his party’s spring conference in Southport, Sir Vince said the divide opened up by the 2016 vote had left the country mired in a “protracted, non-violent civil war”.
He hit out at the “poisonous rhetoric” of Brexiteers which, he said, was worsening divisions.
“I would go so far as to say Britain is now mired in a protracted, non-violent civil war.
“Allied to the poisonous rhetoric about ‘traitors’ and ‘saboteurs’, and what Theresa May calls ‘citizens of nowhere’, we have a toxic brew which fuels the populist right.”