Quakers and Brexit

Antonia Swinson reflects on the European referendum result

by Antonia Swinson 6th January 2017

Heard the one about the bishop, the Turner Prize winner and the Quaker?

The Church of England has ‘jumped on a middle class bandwagon of horror at the Brexit vote’. So thunders Philip North, the bishop of Burnley, writing recently in the Church Times. There had been ‘an almighty cry of anger from a dispossessed and marginalised working class’.