2019 General Election Day 2: Remainers Assemble?

Nick Barlow
Nov 8 · 5 min read

It felt that doing these daily posts in the late afternoon/early evening would be good timing, as most of the big election events would be happening during the day, giving me the chance to use this space to reflect on them before the next day began.

And then Tom Watson decided to announce his retirement in the middle of the evening. So, after thinking yesterday was going to be a story of Conservative errors and gaffes, it instead became one of everyone trying to process what it meant for the campaign and the Labour Party that its Deputy Leader had…

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Nick Barlow

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Many, many things. PhD student at QMUL. Councillor. Ran the 2019 London Marathon for Brain Research UK. @nickjbarlow on Twitter.

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