UK Should Dial Down Its Dangerous Brexit Language

Expand Union Jack flags fluttering outside Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, October 1, 2019. © 2019 Steve Taylor/SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Images A member of parliament unplugs her office phone after callers threaten death and shout “traitor.” Another MP has bricks thrown through her office window. An opposition leader tells police of death threats to her daughter. An MP’s daughter says she fears her mother will be killed because of her work, just as MP Jo Cox was – murdered by a far-right extremist in 2016. Politics has never been a profession for the faint-hearted. But it’s increasingly…

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