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Can the left learn anything from Denmark’s Social Democrats’ migration policy?

Douglas Todd: Those who pay the highest price for high migration levels, says Denmark’s Social Democratic PM Mette Frederiksen, are the working class. “It’s not the elite people.”

Unlike most social-democratic parties, Denmark’s has been winning elections since 2019.

That’s because the Nordic country’s centre-left party has stayed true to its working-class roots. Rather than allowing itself to be run by what French economist Thomas Piketty calls “the Brahmin left” — by which he means educated city elites — Denmark’s Social Democrats have been taking blue-collar workers seriously.

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