Labour’s victory is good for Britain’s union of four countries

THE SYMBOLISM was unmissable. When Britain’s new prime minister, , arrived in on July 5th, he was greeted by activists waving the Union flag, the Scottish saltire and the Welsh Red Dragon. The union has had a tumultuous decade, beginning with the divisive referendum on Scottish independence in 2014 and peaking, post-Brexit, with the Conservative and Unionist Party putting a border in the Irish Sea. Now Sir Keir’s Labour Party is in power . And once again it holds a majority of seats in each of the three countries of Great Britain.