SOCIALISTS committed to leaving the EU met in central London today to discuss how to defend the referendum result from pressure for a second referendum or a reversal of Article 50.
Opening the meeting, Harvard professor of government Richard Tuck said that “democracy is socialism and socialism is democracy.”
He decried the way opponents of the EU have been hounded in academia, saying that if he had worked at a British university he wasn’t sure he would have had the courage to campaign on the anti-democratic character of the EU in the face of “institutional hostility.”
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