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He is also a lousy leader, and at a time when Britain needs a leader of presence, courage, intellect and vision. The 2016 referendum result was indeed the outcome of a class society increasingly riven by inequality. Jeff Wallace Cardiff • John Harris is too kind to the Labour leadership. If a new vote changed the outcome of the last one, it would not put to sleep the issue of the relationship between the UK and the EU. Leadership is not just about charging in regardless. Corbyn has to think about how to make the best out of the situation we are in and how to reconcile irreconcilable demands and expectations: to be a statesman, not a demagogue. John Harris is more up to date – Brexit is indeed a “class issue” and Labour should challenge it by supporting a people’s vote. John Chowcat Hythe, Kent • John Harris’s use of the word “colluding” seems ill-judged, not in its use but in its scope. But it was not just a failure of the Conservatives to listen, it was Labour as well, in power from 1997 to 2010. He is also right that Jeremy Corbyn, the invisible man of politics, is barely interested in halting the damage Brexit will wreak on these downtrodden communities (which a mainly middle class membership does not represent) by calling for a people’s vote, because he is a thinly disguised closet Brexiter.

John Harris, Politico editor in chief, and Roger Pilon, VP for legal affairs at the Cato Institute, discuss how the partisan divide over Kavanaugh is affecting the country. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for…