Lord Frost, Sounding Pessimistic About Brexit Under Labour Government, Could Find Solace in the Lessons of Waterloo

The epic defeat on the horizon belongs not to Brexit but to the Conservatives

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Lord David Frost on October 14, 2021 at London. Leon Neal/Getty Images

As one dispiriting poll on Britain’s general election follows upon another, the questions of the hour for British voters are: Has the Conservative Party met its Waterloo? And what is the fate of Brexit? 

The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union certainly did have an element of the Napoleonic wars about it — of a free nation fighting for its sovereignty from a continental superstate.

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