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===Brexit=== Le Carré was an outspoken advocate of [[European integration]] and sharply criticised [[Brexit]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Carré|first=John le|date=1 February 2020|title=John le Carré on Brexit: 'It's breaking my heart'|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/01/john-le-carre-breaking-heart-brexit|access-date=5 February 2020|archive-date=4 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204165247/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/01/john-le-carre-breaking-heart-brexit|url-status=live}}</ref> Le Carré criticised Brexit advocates such as [[Boris Johnson]] (whom he referred to as a "mob orator"), [[Dominic Cummings]] and [[Nigel Farage]] in interviews, claiming that their "task is to fire up the people with nostalgia [and] with anger". He further opined in interviews: "What really scares me about nostalgia is that it's become a political weapon. Politicians are creating a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and selling it, really, as something we could return to", adding that, with "the demise of the working class we saw also the demise of an established social order, based on the stability of ancient class structures".<ref name=":02" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=14 October 2019|title=John le Carré: 'Politicians love chaos – it gives them authority'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50012504|access-date=13 December 2020|archive-date=19 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119014620/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50012504|url-status=live}}</ref> On the other hand, he said that in the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] "they have this [[Leninism|Leninist]] element and they have this huge appetite to level society."<ref name="John le Carré on Corbyn">{{cite news |last1=John |first1=Banville |title=Interview: 'My ties to England have loosened': John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/john-le-carre-truth-was-what-you-got-away-with |access-date=15 July 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=11 October 2019 }}</ref> On Brexit, le Carré did not mince his words, comparing it to the 1956 [[Suez crisis]], which confirmed post-imperial Britain's loss of global power. "This is without doubt the greatest catastrophe and the greatest idiocy that Britain has perpetrated since the invasion of [[Suez]]", le Carré said of [[Brexit]]. "Nobody is to blame but the Brits themselves – not the Irish, not the Europeans." "The idea, to me, that at the moment we should imagine we can substitute access to the biggest trade union in the world with access to the American market is terrifying", he said.<ref name=otoole/><ref name=rte/><ref name=sands/> Speaking to ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2019, he commented: "I've always believed, though ironically it's not the way I've voted, that it's [[compassionate conservatism]] that in the end could, for example, integrate the private schooling system. If you do it from the left you will seem to be acting out of resentment; do it from the right and it looks like good social organisation." Le Carré also said: "I think my own ties to England were hugely loosened over the last few years. And it's a kind of liberation, if a sad kind."<ref name=":02" />
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