Commentator puts words into action

MATT Goodwin is a leading political thinker on the Right who has decided to quit the commentary box and get on the pitch.

- BY DAVID WILLIAMSON

As an academic he was among the highest profile thinkers who detected a populist resurgence with the potential to transform the politics of Britain and beyond.

However, he wrote that “merely accepting” the result of the Brexit referendum was “enough to make me an outcast” in universities.