Brexit vote should have required 55%, says author Harris
Best selling author believes democratic institutions are under pressure from ‘unbridled populism’
‘All over the world, democratic institutions we thought were permanent and safe are under pressure from unbridled populism,’ says Robert Harris. Photograph: Norbert Millauer/AFP/Getty Images
British politics is fractured, and the Labour Party in the UK may well fall below 200 seats in the House of Commons after the next general election, according to best-selling author Robert Harris.
Harris, a long-standing Labour donor who withdrew his support for the party last year, is a former political journalist who has written ten bestselling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost, Lustrum, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy and Conclave.