Remainers and leavers did not just disagree over Brexit. They increasingly disagreed over reality itself.
Sara Hobolt and James Tilley
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AI-assisted editorial framing · not reportingThis is a powerful compression of the Brexit legacy because it shifts the argument from policy disagreement to epistemic breakdown. It asks readers to judge whether Brexit exposed a political divide or helped create a reality divide that still shapes Britain.
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The line works because it escalates Brexit from an old referendum into a continuing argument about whether a country can remain politically shared once reality itself becomes tribal.
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In a Guardian column on Britain a decade after Brexit, Aditya Chakrabortty cited political scientists Sara Hobolt and James Tilley to argue that the divide hardened into a deeper conflict over perception and truth.
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