| Summary/Abstract |
The 2017 general election was one which almost everybody lost. When she called it, Theresa May declared that the country was united, but the politicians divided. The election was intended to endorse that proposition. It did not. It showed that the country was just as divided as the House of Commons, if not more so—on generational lines (young versus old); along cultural or meritocratic lines (the exam-passing classes versus the rest), for it may be that education rather than class is now the main cleavage in British politics; and, above all, on the toxic issue of Europe. The election, far from settling the European issue, has reopened it.
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