Editing Martin Amis (section)

===Electoral politics===
In June 2008, Amis endorsed the candidacy of [[Barack Obama]] for president of the United States, stating: "The reason I hope for Obama is that he alone has the chance to reposition America's image in the world."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_week/7533252.stm "Martin Amis on Barack Obama"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625014338/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_week/7533252.stm |date=25 June 2022 }}. BBC1, ''This Week'', 30 July 2008.</ref> When briefly interviewed by the BBC during its coverage of the [[2012 United States presidential election]], Amis displayed a change in tone, stating that he was "depressed and frightened" by the US election, rather than excited.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20229191|title=Martin Amis 'depressed' by US election|work=BBC News|date=7 November 2012}}</ref> Blaming a "deep irrationality of the American people" for the apparent narrow gap between the candidates, Amis said the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] had swung so far to the right that former president [[Ronald Reagan]] would be considered a "pariah" by the present party – and invited viewers to imagine a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] in the UK that had moved to the right so much that it disowned [[Margaret Thatcher]]. He said: "Tax cuts for the rich, there's not a democracy on earth where that would be mentioned!"<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/>

In 2015, Amis criticised [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] leader [[Jeremy Corbyn]] in an article for ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', describing him as "humourless" and "under-educated".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/focus/article1624016.ece|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200226225447/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/amis-on-corbyn-undereducated-humourless-third-rate-dhvgj99fjxv|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 February 2020|first=Martin|last=Amis|title=Amis on Corbyn: Undereducated, humourless, third-rate|newspaper=The Sunday Times|date=25 October 2015}}</ref> In the aftermath of the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|2016 referendum]], Amis said that United Kingdom's decision to [[Brexit|leave the European Union]] was a "self-inflicted wound" that had left him "depressed".<ref>{{cite news |title=Martin Amis: Brexit 'a denial of British decline' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-41348509 |access-date=22 May 2023 |work=BBC News |date=21 September 2017 |archive-date=22 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522162751/https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-41348509 |url-status=live }}</ref>