S14 E09: London's Future in a Changing Europe
Mar 30, 2026 · 42 min · 10 segments
Anand Menon discusses the legacy of the Brexit vote and the UK's political future
Mar 30, 2026 · 42 min · 10 segments
Anand Menon discusses the legacy of the Brexit vote and the UK's political future
I think as a general rule, you should never collect a full election because it sets expectations unrealistically high.
Less well-off parts of the United Kingdom were far more likely than better-off parts of the United Kingdom to vote for Brexit.
which was stupid and odd, and it got even odder because he was then subjected to a tirade of personal abuse on Twitter, basically from Corbynistas who accused him of being a metropolitan elitist because he went to PrEP.
But I'd never thought about this before, so I went back to the office having heard this thing and said to the team, is there something odd about where PrEPs are? And it turns out we mapped where the PrEPs are, they're the stars on that graph, the PrEPs are where people vote Remain.
In general, Pretz, if you think about the coffee chain, basically sets up in rich, diverse, young, well-educated parts of the country.
And in a sense, that nicely reveals the fact that essentially the more prosperous a place is, the more likely it was to vote remain in the referendum.
So there's an economic subtext to all of this and it's important not to forget that because that economic subtext, that protest against what was seen as an unjust economic status quo is still very much part of our politics now.
It's still very much one of the drivers for support for populist parties like Reform UK or the Greens.
I think as a general rule, you should never collect a full election because it sets expectations unrealistically high.
Less well-off parts of the United Kingdom were far more likely than better-off parts of the United Kingdom to vote for Brexit.
which was stupid and odd, and it got even odder because he was then subjected to a tirade of personal abuse on Twitter, basically from Corbynistas who accused him of being a metropolitan elitist because he went to PrEP.
But I'd never thought about this before, so I went back to the office having heard this thing and said to the team, is there something odd about where PrEPs are? And it turns out we mapped where the PrEPs are, they're the stars on that graph, the PrEPs are where people vote Remain.
In general, Pretz, if you think about the coffee chain, basically sets up in rich, diverse, young, well-educated parts of the country.
And in a sense, that nicely reveals the fact that essentially the more prosperous a place is, the more likely it was to vote remain in the referendum.
So there's an economic subtext to all of this and it's important not to forget that because that economic subtext, that protest against what was seen as an unjust economic status quo is still very much part of our politics now.
It's still very much one of the drivers for support for populist parties like Reform UK or the Greens.
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