Would Disraeli, With Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Rising, Support a Realignment of the British Right?
Certainly the nation faces one of those existential crises that fortunately come only rarely.
By STEPHEN MacLEAN
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STEPHEN MacLEAN
London, United Kingdom
Stephen MacLean is a Contributing Editor of The New York Sun.
Mr. MacLean, a Nova Scotian who has blogged under the rubric of the Disraeli-Macdonald Institute, is also the author of our Brexit Diary.
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