Britain’s Centrist Dads Have a New Champion: Martin Ivens

Not so long ago “Centrist Dad” ruled the roost in Britain. Middle-class, middle-aged men who favor pragmatic social-democratic politics used to corner the market in public-service appointments and outward-facing corporate jobs. Post-Brexit, however, their “common-sense” views were no longer welcome. Their natural foes, right-wing populists and leftist social-justice warriors, came to the fore, disturbing the placid order of things.

Perhaps that was the UK’s loss. But a reckoning was overdue. Centrist Dad is often outwardly charming but is only open to compromise on small details of a belief system lodged securely in mainstream Labour and Liberal Democrat voting patterns — ...