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Take a look at where the Revoke Article 50 petition has got the fewest and most signatures. These are two Englands with differences in experience and outlook that run much deeper than the current divisions over Brexit 
Views on major issues have been diverging in rural and urban areas and it’s been happening unnoticed for decades, as @drjennings and Gerry Stoker first wrote back in 2016
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These areas have had very different experiences of globalisation over recent decades. Towns have lost good jobs and young people have moved away. It’s an aging story as @election_data and @centrefortowns showed here centrefortowns.org/reports/the-ag…
Brexit has become a tug of war to decide which of these “two Englands” will win and which will lose. This is the wrong approach for anyone who wants a future for this country. Neither can be wished away
