Gordon Brown: Britain’s renewal after Donald Trump and Brexit

The apparent triumph of Nigel Farage in the British political sphere has cast a huge shadow over a nation struggling to find its identity, writes Gordon Brown.

US president Donald Trump’s long-postponed state visit to the UK has now come and gone. He leaves in his wake a Britain that is consumed not only by a stalled Brexit and the unending debate about it, but also by a far more profound crisis of identity that Brexit has exposed and aggravated.